Concept as a Basic Category of Linguoculturology

Abstract

Concepts, as key words of culture, reflect the cultural and national ideas of an ethnic group about the world. They are represented in consciousness as mental entities, but have a name in language and are explicated using the linguistic means of a particular language. The concept of “concept” in linguoculturology is considered as a synonym for the concept of “category of culture”, since, like the category of culture, the concept is studied as a unit of the mental picture of the world.