FIELD MODEL OF THE CONCEPT ОСЕНЬ/AUTUMN IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES (ON ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENT DATA)

As any comparative study, the study of the concepts is aimed at identifying distinctive features of the object. Еthno-specifi city may be a sign that formed the basis of the nomination, that is an internal form of the name and might be viewed in stereotyping models of perception and behavioral reactions, refl ected in the semantics of the concept. Ethno-spec- ifi city of the concept in the context of cross-language mapping gives grounds to consider it as a unit of national mentality, different from the mentality as a general totality of the features of the national character. The wok describes the concept autumn in multilingual cultures in cognitive-linguistic aspect, undertakes the attempt to create the fi eld model of the Russian concept осень and the English concept autumn in terms of the core, base layer and periphery, and analyzes the representation of the said concept in the language consciousness of the Rus- sian and English languages native speakers