Interaction of the mental space of the global linguaculture and ethnolinguacultural mental space in the verbalization in English of the concept of marriage in the context of East Africa

The paper focuses on the analysis of the peculiarities of the verbalization in English of the concept of MARRIAGE in the polilinguacultural context of East Africa. The research shows that the conceptual system of the concept of MARRIAGE integrates the mental structures of the cognitive experience of the global linguaculture as well as the mental structures of the ethnocultural cognitive experience. The nuclear positions in the structure of the concept are determined by the mental structures of the ethnocultural cognitive experience, which is based on the cultural traditions of the peoples of East Africa and the peculiarities of the social institute of family. The influence of the local ethnolinguaculture on the structure of the concept includes the change in the meaning of the lexical units, the change of the position of the lexical units in the structure of the concept, on the actualization of the lexical units, and the linguacultural peculiarities of the combination of lexical units. At the same time the influence of the global linguaculture can be seen in the gestalt integration of the universal frame of wedding.