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SHOPPING AS THE KIND OF LEISURE AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE CULTURE OF MASS CONSUMERISM IN THE POSTINDUSTRIAL EPOCH // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 4 (145). P. 31-34

The work is devoted to the study of the concept “Leisure” which has an important value in the culture of any linguistic community. One of the leisure aspects which has become widely spread in many countries of the world in recent times including America and Russia is considered.

Keywords: concept, leisure, free time, shop, shopping

HANDMADE AS A COMPONENT OF THE MEGACONCEPT “LEISURE” // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 178-183

It is widely known that leisure is an important component of most people’s lives and it is fundamental in determining the quality of their living. The article offers a representation of one of the most popular leisure kinds in the modern American society – handmade. In the USA it is a serious type of leisure activity which is presented by a variety of forms, materials and techniques. Based on the research of special American literature (guidelines for handmade, handicraft magazines) the author of the article has identified the names of the main forms of handmade in America. It is important to note that the word “handmade” is not just a lexical unit but represents an independent concept with its individual components.

Keywords: megaconcept, leisure activity, serious leisure, casual leisure, handmade, handmaker, handicraft

CONCEPT HANDMADE AND ITS EXPRESSION IN AMERICAN ENGLISH (BASED ON COZY MYSTERY FICTION) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 10 (163). P. 50-54

One of the trends of the modern world community is the so-called “creative consumerism”. Handmade in America today is not just a hobby but the way to make money doing the things which bring pleasure. The authors of the article attempt to investigate the expression of the concept handmade in American English by means of studying the American cozy mystery fiction and determining the importance of this concept in the life of the American society. Cozy mysteries, also referred to simply as cozies, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozy mystery series frequently have a prominent thematic element introduced by the detective's job or hobby often connected with handmade.

Keywords: creative consumerism, concept, leisure, handmade, handmakers, cozy mystery, American society

LEXICOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CONCEPT “HOBBY” (BASED ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 6 (171). P. 16-19

The article offers a brief description of one of the most significant concepts for the English culture – “hobby”. The research of the content of the modern concept “hobby” in the English lingua-culture is based on the study of the English Dictionaries. The study also reveals the features of the formation of “hobby” as a lexical unit of the English language. At the present time English hobby is considered to be one of the types of “serious leisure” and the English concept “hobby” is getting a feature of usefulness and importance, and represents a certain model of life as pleasure, being engaged in not just a favourite routine, but necessary and useful.

Keywords: concept, lingua-cultural concept, English lingua-culture, leisure, serious leisure, hobby

TATTOO AS THE COMPONENT OF THE KEY CONCEPT “ART” IN THE MODERN AMERICAN LINGUISTIC CULTURE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2017. Issue 3 (180). P. 18-23

The category of leisure refers to one of the most ancient categories. Leisure has always been an important component of human life, taking a central place in the system of social relations. The interest of the American society in such a kind of leisure activities as tattoo led to the fact that currently it is embedded in everyday life and has become an integral part of the American culture. This fashionable form of art reflects one of the leisure activities of a person – manipulating his body, “decorating” it with punctures in the skin or application of paints on human skin. The article discusses the content of this phenomenon in the American society at the present stage of its development. Our research is carried out in the field of cultural linguistics which studies language in close connection with a person, his spiritual and practical activities, culture of the ethnic group. Based on the study of various sources and also conducted a lexicographic analysis of the basic lexeme tattoo and its derivatives, synonyms, slang expressions objectifying the component “tattoo” in the English language, the author comes to conclusion that tattoo is currently recognized as a significant for researchers and rapidly growing block of modern culture, one of the most important forms of artistic expression and as a way of communication.

Keywords: category, leisure, art, subculture, tattoo, body, body painting, body art

CONCEPT LEISURE IN RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC CULTURE: STRUCTURAL AND INFORMATIVE CHARACTERISTICS AND LEXICAL MEANS OF EXPRESSION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2019. Issue 4 (201). P. 110-120

The article analyzes the place and role of leisure in the life of the speakers of the Russian language and modern national culture from the standpoint of the linguistic conceptual approach: it examines the structural and informative characteristics and lexical means the of the concept LEISURE expressing, which represents a significant fragment of the worldview for the modern Russian society. Leisure plays an important role in the self-realization of the individual and the regulation of its relationship with the outside world. Leisure is a space for personal improvement. The linguistic-culturological characteristic of the LEISURE concept is emphasized, since the value perception and understanding of leisure by the Russian people is fixed in the language. Proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, which include the lexeme leisure, its wide representation in Russian texts of various genres and styles, the interpretation of the features in dictionaries indicate the extreme importance of this concept in the Russian linguistic culture. Currently in Russia there is a multi-layered leisure space permeating the social being. The following informative components of the concept LEISURE are marked: “rest”, “free space”, “freedom”, “the opportunity to do your favorite hobby”, “soul celebration”, “the chance to show your creative abilities”. The increase in the amount of free time, scientific and technical progress, the national diversity of cultures contributes to the complication of the structure of leisure and the creation of many forms and types of leisure activity. In particular, this article deals with such leisure areas as leisure, organized by means of computer technologies, art and sports. The end of XX - the beginning of the XXI centuries is characterized by the flourishing of consumer culture in Russia and the replenishment of new types of leisure activities. The article substantiates the thesis that the specificity of modern leisure activities is determined by such property of consumer culture as creative consumerism. From this point of view, consumption is viewed as a process of creatively constructing an identity with the help of acquired goods and services. In language, this tendency is realized in the form of using in modern speakers’ speech the newest borrowed words denoting certain forms of leisure (shopping, body art, piercing, tattoo, face art, hand-made hobby, scrapbooking, patchwork, quilling, felting, etc.). In general, the stated problem has broad prospects for scientific research.

Keywords: cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, Russian linguistic culture, concept, leisure, concept structure, structural and informative characteristics of the concept, lexical means of concept expression