MEANS OF REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “LOVE” IN ENGLISH SONG DISCOURSE

The objective of this study is a linguocultural analysis of the means of representation of the concept of “love” in English song discourse. We have used such research methods as contextual analysis, semantic analysis, descriptive method, including observation, generalization, and interpretation. The theme of this article addresses such disciplinary areas of modern linguistics as linguoculturology, linguistics, ethnopsycholinguistics and linguoconceptology. Love is a feeling that every person experiences in their life; it is a concept that is found in all cultures and languages. That is why the study of the concept of “Love” plays an important role in English linguoculture and it is valuable for linguistic theory in terms of identifying and stating linguistic, axiological and lexico-semantic aspects of the concept of “love”, reflecting both general and ethnospecific cultural and historical features of the formation of national images of the world. The relevance of the theme is due to the increased interest of modern linguists in the problems of the relationship between language and culture, the impact of language on a person's worldview, and the linguistic picture of the world. Many researchers emphasize the relationship between an individual's native language and his worldview. For this reason, various culturally significant concepts, which carry a large amount of information about native speakers of a particular language: national character, ethnographic information, cultural features, are being investigated. The research is devoted to the study of the concept of “love” through the prism of modern English-speaking musical culture. To describe the modern linguistic and cultural specifics of the concept of “love”, we have selected and systematized lexical means of expressing the concept of “love” in the texts of modern English-speaking musical performers. Various approaches to the description of concepts are considered. The concept of “love” in the English language picture of the world is presented. The nominative field of this concept is briefly described. Based on semantic and contextual analysis of text fragments, we concluded that love is the most significant feeling in the circle of value orientations of native English speakers; the concept of “love” in the minds of native English speakers can include the widest, sometimes mutually exclusive meanings in its content; the content of the concept presents not only national cultural specifics, but also more universal signs of love, reflecting the emotional and sensual state of any person outside of time and nationality. As a result of the study, we have compiled a semantic classification of the lexical means of representation of the concept of “love”.