CONCEPTUAL SPACE OF GERMAN-SPEAKING MATRIMONIAL CONFLICT CONVERSATIONAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article deals with the conceptual space of matrimonial conflict discourse as a system of hierarchically organized and interrelated concepts, which are highlighted and analyzed according to their place in the discourse. The aim of the study is to establish the lingo-cognitive specifics of the conceptual space of German matrimonial conflict spoken discourse by identifying discourse-creating autochthons, their systematization, as well as detailed analysis. Research methods are based on the principles of both cognitive- discursive and system-structural linguistics in order to comprehensively analyze the cognitive resources of conceptual space. The inductive method is used to analyze the language material from its accumulation to further systematization and to establish its functional features in the German matrimonial conflict spoken discourse. Conceptual analysis within the construction method (to establish priority concepts) and statistical methods were also used, which allowed to determine the statistical significance of verbalized in the studied discursive forms of concepts, and, consequently, discourse-creating autochthons (the χ2-square) and determine the strength between researched concepts (contingency coefficient K). German matrimonial conflict discourse is a conflict- marked communication of people, which is characterized by symmetrical relations between communicators, assuming status-role equality and approximately the same age of speakers. The conceptual space of German matrimonial conflicting spoken discourse is a discursive configuration of multilevel and hierarchically ordered conceptual fillers of 506 concepts. The mental information quanta of the German matrimonial conflicting spoken discourse are represented by three macroconcepts: MENSCH / MAN, TÄTIGKEIT / ACTIVITY, UMGEBUNG / ENVIRONMENT, which, in turn, are represented by the concepts below.