Bondarenko Y. Evolution of the Notion of Time in the English Language and in Discourse

The object-matter of the research is the lexical means of verbalizing the notion of time in the system of the English language and in scientific and non-scientific types of discourse in the 7th- 21st centuries, the subject-matter being cognitive and semantic characteristics of the lexical means of verbalizing the notion of time and their evolution in English scientific, mythological and poetic types of discourse in the 7th- 21st centuries. The research aims to study the nature, structure, special features of verbalizing and trends of evolution of the linguistic cognitive time model, manifest in the English language system, scientific and non-scientific types of discourse. The research involves the combination of semantic and cognitive, discursive and general linguistic research methods. Scientific novelty of the results is accounted for the fact that first within the historical conceptology in accordance with the development of the notion of time there has been built an evolutionary time model lexicalized by means of the English language of different periods in terms of the proportion of scientific and non-scientific components in this model. The research has theoretical value since it presents linguistic cognitive time model, a device to solve the scientific problem of the mutual connection between the dual notion of time and its implementing in the language and speech to develop the tenets of historical conceptology, cognitive discoursology, cognitive semantics. Its also has applied value since its results can be used in lectures and seminars in History of the English language, English Lexicology and courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Theory of the World Image, Cognitive Semantics and Linguistic Philosophy.