Language explication of the conceptualized meanings in ethno-cultural and socio-political aspects of discourse

• Tatyana Yu. Tameryan Faculty of Foreign Languages, North-Ossetian State University n. a. K.L. Khetagurov, Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation
• Marina R. Zheltukhina Institute of Foreign Languages, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Volgograd, Russian Federation
• Irina G. Anikejeva Department of Linguistics and Theory of Translation Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation
• Natalia A. Arkhipenko Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
• Elena I. Soboleva Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Kuban State Technological University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation
• Olga Nikolaevna Skuybedina Law Institute, Russian University of Transport (MIIT), Moscow, Russian Federation

Palabras clave: South Ossetian discourse, Concept, Subconcept, associative experiment, Conceptual modeling.

Resumen

The study of ethnical concept language representations in the South Ossetia discourse as the discourse of not recognized country is a new direction in political linguistics. The article is focused on revealing verbal representations and cognitive features of the ethno specific political concept 'фæндаг'/'road' as the only highway connecting the Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania with the outside world through the Republic of North Ossetia (Russia). Based on lexicographic sources, media materials, Internet blogs and data from the associative experiment conducted in three age groups, among teenagers and young people, people of the middle and older generation, the structure and content of this discursive formation were revealed.