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This article dwells on the methodology of conceptual structure modelling on the basis of denotatively related units as the first stage in the fragmentation of an object of reality. Further, the paper substantiates the approach to structuring knowledge about the object, which is fixed in language units, from the standpoint of fulfilling the cumulative language function. It is acknowledged here that an object of reality, considered as an area that is subjected to cognitive processing and is the basis for mental essence, is realized in a language, though not in one sign but in their multitude. The expression of knowledge about any object “splits it up”, i.e. only some part of information about the object is reflected in the semantics of a certain unit. Thus, as a rule, the sign correlate denoting the object is presented in the meanings only implicitly. Such a correlate, pointing to a concrete sphere of reality and having a stable connection with it, is considered to be the denotative feature repeating in a variety of units. A combination of units having common formal and semantic components can be considered as a natural, historically established layer of information about an object in a language. It allows us to structure the knowledge about an object from the standpoint of fulfilling the cumulative function of a language. While modelling a fragment (object) of the national worldview, it is important to find material that could correspond to this concept. That is why this article analyses not only units of literary language but also those found in other forms of existence of a national language (first of all in dialects). Using the example of modelling one conceptual structure, the author of this paper showed varied and extensive information about the properties of a certain object and revealed peculiarities of verbalization of separate conceptual structure components by means of literary and dialect units.

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