NOTIONAL COMPONENT OF THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE FOR THE CONCEPT «INTEGRITY»

Abstract

The article deals with the interpretational analysis of the concept VIRTUE/INTEGRITY in Ukrainian and English languages which is caused by the current political, social and educational movement of Ukraine which, in its turn, seems impossible without understanding of universal conceptual dominants while Ukraine has been demonstrating its intention to be integrated into the global educational community. The importance of the study is promoted by the fact that virtue, in general, and academic integrity, in particular, as moral and ethical responsibility, are considered universal for Ukrainian language worldview. The analysis has revealed that this moral concept has been the object and subject of the theoretical studies in philisophy, ethics, theology, linguistic and cultural studies, cognitive linguistics. The aim of the article is to recognize the conceptual difference in comprehending the ethical category by the conceptual and verbal description of the logical and verbal conscience structure. The tasks presuppose semantic analysis and conceptual comparison of the concept structures in Ukrainian and English languages, which are performed by means of the analysis of Ukrainian and English lexicographical sources. The article describes the first stage of verbalizing analysis of this universal concept) the main characteristics of its verbal representations being honesty, purity, virtue and moral choice of a personality. Thus, the analysis has revealed the essential difference which is expressed in the English concept and is determined by understanding honesty as the obligatory integrity of the stable behaviour of the virtual person as a member of the community who perceives his/her responsibility.