FRAME STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT LOVE

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of the language representation of the concept LOVE in the modern English TV scripts. The main theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the concept were systematized in modern cognitive linguistics and lingo culture. It’s aimed at developing the complex methodology of the analysis of the concept LOVE, actualized in the modern English TV scripts. The methods of research have become the basis of the conceptual analysis that includes dictionary definitions, synonymous rows of the concept’s name and also frame analysis which treats concept as a form of the ordered structure. The focus of the research deals with the analysis of the frame structure of the concept LOVE. The concept is viewed as a unit of mental process which is coded in the language. The survey was made concerning the explicit means of realization of the thing frame, the action frame, the possession frame, the identification frame, and the comparison frame of the concept as well as the conceptual metaphors. Verbal content of the frame structure represents the variety of lexico-semantic classes. Action schemas of state / process, of contact action as well as a causative schema are outlined and described. The possession frame elucidates two specifications: the part- whole schema and the inclusion schema. The thing frame is connected with the qualitative schema, existence schema and the locative schema. The identification frame comprises several classifiers and it’s found to be least representative. The comparison frame integrates the entities which are based on their sameness or likeness. As a result of the study, the frame analysis of the concept LOVE has been outlined and structured.