Uzbekistan state world languages university d. U. Ashurova m. R. Galieva

Conceptual analysis deals with the processes of conceptualization and categorization, which relate linguistic units to cognitive structures and processes. It presupposes searching for the cculture relevant verbal signals in the text including: a) non-equivalent lexicon; b) culture-specific Ph.U., proverbs, quotations, epigrams; c) culture-relevant stylistic devices (allusion, antonomasia, litotes, euphemism, image-bearing stylistic devices); d) mythologemes; e) culture specific concepts.

It is a comprehensive, multi-stage analysis of culture specific concepts which presupposes description of a) the concept structure and its constituents (notional, figurative and evaluative spheres); b) hierarchical taxonomy of cognitive features inferred in the process of conceptualization; c) distribution of cognitive features according to the "field" principle, i.e. their reference either to the nucleus or periphery of a concept.