Concept TIME. On the issue of linguistic terms “definition”, “category”, “concept” in translation studies

Abstract

The main purpose of the research was to try to give a precise and, in our opinion, the closest definition of the concept: time, from the point of view of the translation science – translation studies. The relevance of the chosen theme is to study, compare and contrast semantic and lexical meanings of such units as: “definition”, “category”, “concept”, taking into account their linguistic/national-cultural characteristics in various languages. Areal studies of the concept time involved not only works of linguistic character, but also others (related with linguistics) sciences: cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, linguo-philosophy, theology and etc. Thus, the results of the study helped us to construct a synchronous linguistic-hierarchical model of human thought process reproduction, according to which we established that the concept of TIME – is the distance // path from point A (signal) to end point B (idea). Language in such a case is the main interpreter of thought, thanks to which a “temporary mental image” is formed. The image is made up of words in the mind of each individual in their own way, depending on the unique (exceptional) cognitive and recessive thinking.