Lexical Means of Objectification of the Concept SEA/МОРЕ in the English Language

Abstract

The essay highlights the linguistic and cultural research of the polysemantic lexical item sea as means for the concept SEA/МОРЕ objectification in the English language. The concept SEA / МОРЕ has proved to be important as a source of active vocabulary formation. It has been determined that the main language means of SEA/МОРЕ conceptualization is a polysemantic lexical item sea. It has been proved to be the basic source of the secondary nomination by association and extending the domain WATER due to the language world picture of the English people on the base of metonimical and metaphorical transpositions of meanings.