Skobnikova O. Linguistic, cultural and semiotic aspects of representation of the concept FAMILY in American national corpora and film texts

The thesis focuses onthe study of means of expressing of the concept FAMILY in American linguistic culture and aims at establishing a multimodal specificity of the implementation of the content and structure of the linguistic-cultural concept FAMILY as an element of the American conceptual sphere and the study of linguistic and extralinguistic features of the representation of this concept in American national corpora and film texts. The concept FAMILY is recognized as one of the most important elements of the formation of character and outlook of representatives of the American linguistic culture. The study of the linguistic-cultural concept and its features is performed through a multidimensional analysis of its nominative representatives. It is found out that on the axiological level the concept FAMILY in the investigated corpus of screenplays is presented positively. American film texts are considered to be the most important mirror of American linguistic culture and are viewed as an important source of concept formation in the mentality of Americans. Key words: concept, linguistic culture, linguistic, semiotic, cultural aspect, structure of the concept, national corpus, film text.