THE CONCEPT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE EU-UKRAINE PERSPECTIVE: NOTIONAL AND INTERPRETATIVE ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE EXPRESSION
THE CONCEPT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE EU-UKRAINE PERSPECTIVE: NOTIONAL AND INTERPRETATIVE ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE EXPRESSION

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the concept of European integration (the EUROINTEGRATION-concept) as anintegral part of the EU philosophy, policy, and overall worldview which is of prime interest for contemporaryUkraine that is currently undergoing a set of political, economic, and sociocultural transformations on its way tobecoming a full member of the European Community. In particular, the study aims at revealing the ways in whichthe concept is perceived in the European integration discourses of the European Union and Ukraine. Sincelanguage is a tool for structuring human thoughts, we treat language as a point of entry for analyzing the world’sconstrual in human cognition. Thus, both conceptual structure and content are analyzed on the basis of verbalized(language) externalization of the concept in English and Ukrainian languages and political and media discoursesof the European Union and Ukraine. The study rests on the theory of a three-layered conceptual model thatfeatures notional-informative, figurative-associative, and interpretative layers. The paper discusses the contentsof the notional and interpretative layers of the EUROINTEGRATION-concept. The lexicographic analysis backedby discursive interpretation helps to reveal convergences and divergences in the way European integration isconceptualized (understood and evaluated) in the European Union and Ukraine.

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