KEY WORDS OF THE UKRAINIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL ASPECT

INTRODUCTION National features of conceptosphere is considered by means history of words called key words. “When a learner masters a language and particularly meaning of the words they accept the world conceptualization typical of certain culture. Thus, the words that contain linguospecific concepts both “reflect” and “establish” the natives’ way of thinking 1 . The headline of monography by A. Vezhbytska “Culture Comprehension through the Key Words” renders the cumulative potency of these words 2 . According to the researcher, “the culture analysis cannot ignore the importance of the semantic consideration of culture. The relevance of semantics is never restricted by the lexical semantics but it is unlikely to reveal with the same intensity in any other sphere 3 ”. State as one of the key words in a political culture. The internal (implicit) structure of the word state defined as “the territory characterized as integrity from the point of view of history, people and political order 4 ” etymologically related to Protoslavic *drћati “to hold; to own” 5 . The idea of state in this meaning is widened by the synonyms krayina (country), zemlia (land), tsarstvo (kingdom), papstvo (popedom), krai (land), storona (land). Syntagmatically the last two components can combine with the words nash (our), ridnyi (native). In this case it is necessary to find out when these associative attributes could have combined with the word state. The relation nasha derzhava (our state), ridna derzhava (native state)