Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of theoretical views of linguists about the concept. It mainly focuses on the definitions given to the concept, its structure, core and secondary components. The structure of the concept has a systemic character. The structural features are complex and perceived as a whole mental structure in the language. It is important to note that the notion of concept is researched in the focus of several modern trends of linguistics, such as cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, psycholinguistics, linguistic conceptology and etc.. Accordingly, the approaches to defining the structural components of the concepts also differ. To some extend the viewpoints of the linguists on the problem to be discussed in this article are similar, but they differ in content and scope. These particular peculiarities and some special characteristics of concepts are discussed in this article