SEMANTIC FILLING AND LANGUAGE EXPLICATION OF THE CONCEPT "REPENTANCE" ("RASKAYANIE") IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN
The work examines the cognitive characteristics, semantic extension and language explication of the concept “raskayanie” (“repentance”) against the background of doublet quasi-synonymic concept “pokayanie” (“penitence”) according to the data of the basic Russian explanatory and etymological dictionaries, synonymic and antonymic ones. The problem of peculiarities of language appropriation of the concept “raskayanie” (“repentance”) within the framework of opposition between religious and secular components of the Russian traditional culture which reflects in ordinary consciousness of Russian native speakers is also analyzed. In functioning of the concept in national conceptual sphere the tendency to “concept desacralization” becomes apparent: this tendency is interpreted as stylistic decrease of words expressed primordially high spiritual, religious and moral values. Moreover, trend to psychologization in interpretation of concepts expressed the idea of acknowledgement of fault by a person, which is directed at manifestation of purely secular, non-religious content, is noted.