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The Lexical Means of Expression of the Core of the Concept “Baby” in the English Language // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2007. Issue 4 (67). P. 19-23

The article deals with the analysis of the core of the concept “baby” by means of studying different lexical means that describe a child during the first year of his life. The core of the concept “baby” consists of physical characteristics: small weight, diminutive height, specific age, weaning; physical-physiological characteristics: the ability to crawl, toddle, utter separate sounds and syllables and psychological ones: the ability to cry, scream and smile.

About the Psychological Basis of Expressing Age Categories (by the Example of the English Nouns «Toddler», «Kid» and «Boy») // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2007. Issue 4 (67). P. 48-51

The article deals with the analysis of the reasons of expending the meaning of the noun «toddler» as well as psychological reasons of describing adults by means of the nouns «kid» and «boy».

THE EXPRESSION OF THE CATEGORY OF AGE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2009. Issue 4 (82). P. 126-129

The given article deals with categorization as one of the most important processes of human cogitation in terms of the category of age. The given category can be represented as the correlation «core - periphery». The core consists of the upper and basic levels of the category of age and the periphery comprises the lower level.

Keywords: categorization, the category of age, the hierarchy of categories, the correlation «core - periphery», age categories, functional semantic field, semantic category, notional categories

THE FIELD STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT TODDLER // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 143-145

The article deals with analyzing the concept toddler as a multilevel construct, consisting of several cognitive layers. The research results in identifying the field structure of the given concept, which consists of core, borderline and peripheral elements.

Keywords: concept, toddler, basic level, core, periphery, conceptual feature

THE PERIPHERY OF THE FUNCTIONAL SEMANTIC FIELD OF INFANCY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 3 (105). P. 101-104

The article deals with the periphery of the functional-semantic field of infancy in the English language. The periphery of the analyzed field consists of the lexical means, verbalizing features, that specify the essential and basic characteristics of babies; dialectisms, archaisms, slang and stylistically coloured means as well as phraseological units.

Keywords: categorization, semantic category, functional semantic field, periphery

FRENCH FIGURATIVE VOCABULARY REPRESENTING ARCHETYPICALLY ESSENTIAL FOODS (COMPARATIVE, LINGUOCULTURAL AND DISCOURSE STUDIES) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 4 (193). P. 128-132

The paper presents the comparative analysis of French, Russian and English figurative vocabulary representing archetypically essential foods – honey, milk and butter. Figurative vocabulary is a valuable source of data connected with national mentality; it reflects material and spiritual culture in the language. The investigation of figurative expressions containing different linguistic units which represent foods is relevant due to the fact that food, being an element of national culture, is connected in the greatest degree with peoples’ perception of their national characteristic features. Figurative expressions containing such linguistic units as ‘honey’, ‘milk’ and ‘bread’ have been analyzed as these elements are frequently used in French, Russian and English figurative expressions. Milk and honey are equally significant foods for the Russians and French people, consequently, figurative meanings represented by these linguistic units are similar in both cultures. Milk symbolizes health, youth; it is also a source of enjoyment and pleasure in the English and French cultures. The linguocultural analysis of French figurative expressions was supplemented by the examination of their realizations in different types of discourse and compared to equivalent expressions in the Russian and English languages. The most vivid examples are provided with contexts from different types of discourse. The complex analysis of French expressions containing the unit “beurre” has shown that one and the same expression can have not only different but also antonymic figurative meanings which have opposite connotations. Thus, the results have shown that the complex analysis should be carried out in three aspects: linguocultural, comparative and discourse ones.

Keywords: figurative expressions, figurative vocabulary, figurative meanings, foods, linguocultural analysis, discourse analysis, French, Russian, English