PROBLEMS OF CONCEPTUALIZATION AND CATEGORIZATION OF THE WORLD IN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The cognitive approach to the analysis of language is to identify and explain the processes of categorization and conceptualization, which are reflected in the language. The unit of conceptualization in cognitive linguistics is the concept, understood as the result of cognition.  In the concept, according to the cognitive and linguo-culturological approach, not only the semantics of the language unit is concentrated. The concept is a unit of the mental lexicon and is a set of meanings, values and norms as a result of human cognitive activity. The mental lexicon of a person stores not only meanings, but also destinations, all sensory images, meanings, evaluations and connotations, personal and collective, refracted through the prism of a particular culture in the linguistic consciousness. The following article is devoted to the study of the problem of conceptualization and categorization in linguistics.