The Concept and its Distinctive Features in Linguoculturology. Principles for the Study of Concepts Across Different Languages

The problem of the human dimension in language became one of the central issues in linguistics at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Among the processes currently taking place in the field, one can undoubtedly identify a gradual yet consistent shift in the scientific paradigm, prompted by the recognition of the fundamental truth that language cannot be fully comprehended without taking into account the figure of its creator and user. This figure simultaneously embodies that of the observer, who becomes the primary object of cognitive-communicative analysis of speech activity. Nevertheless, there also exists the principle of the reversibility of the observer’s position. Its essence lies in the fact that, when examining any given.