Specificity of the Concept GRAZHDANSTVENNOST’ (CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS) in the Russian World View

Abstract

In connection with the increased interest in the topic of patriotism in modern Russia the concept GRAZHDAN-STVENNOST’ ( CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS ) appears most attractive to linguists. The aim of the study is to identify and analyze the features of linguistic representation of the concept CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS in the Russian world view. The study sets out to solve the following issues: to identify the content of the concept CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS and to place it in the Russian world view as well as in the Russian artistic picture of the world based on the material of the Russian Language National Corpus. The following words were found to be related to the concept under study: citizenship, civic, citizen. The analysis of the content of the anthropomorphic axiological concept revealed some features related to a motivating act “citizen”. The conceptual framework was found to include the following features: “property”, “quality”, “sense”, “morality”, “consciousness”, “right”, “obligation”, “duty”, “civil society”, “state”, “patriotism”. “Civilization” and “social status” seem to be archaic conceptual features. On the basis of the studied material, the following value signs of CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS can be pointed out: “activity”, “will”, “readiness”, “values”, “culture”, “thinking”, “responsibility”, “attitude”, “position”, “role”, “ability”, “consciousness”, “self-consciousness”, “property”, “skill”, “emotions”, “courage”, “principled”, “country”, “activity”, “democracy”, “Russia”. The analysis of the material of the Russian Language National Corpus revealed the following features in the structure of the concept: categorical, evaluative and conceptual figurative features.