THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC FIELD OF «SIN» IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WORLDVIEW: THE BIBLE'S INFLUENCE ON ITS FORMATION

Abstract

The article deals with a lexico-semantic field "sin". The author reveals the content of this lexicosemantic field and presents its separate layers. The concepts of the linguistic picture of the world are determined in the article. Sin in the linguistic worldview is a linguo-cultural religious-ethical socio-regulatory token, structured by the unity of conceptual, value and figurative components, the first two of which are internally inseparable. The article deals with lexico-semantic field of “sin”. The linguistic picture of the world is a specific vision (that is, logical comprehension, sensation and evaluation) of the real world and everything that is brought into it by human consciousness fixed in the vocabulary of the corresponding language. The content of the lexico-semantic field of “sin” is due to the specifics of the linguistic picture of the world, and the means of its verbalization reflect the worldview of the bearers of culture of the era (mostly religious or secular), their socio- and ethnocultural traditions. The author reveals the meaning of this lexico-semantic field and identifies its separate layers. The article also defines the concept of linguistic worldview.