“PANDEMIC” CONCEPT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The term "concept" has a number of definitions, but there is no universal one. concept one the basic phenomena modern linguistics. mental formation, which result person’s cognitive activity and contains information about objects surrounding reality. can be defined as global unit on level that represents structures human knowledge both material spiritual worlds. content divided into its linguistic significance cultural interpretation, so often called knowledge, an abstract idea or symbol. "pandemic" considered key element included in picture world every language nowadays. structure represented by three components: image, interpretation field. “Pandemic” classified 7 subgroups, lexical units are center lexical-semantic group close to value nucleus, turn subdivided 3 subgroups.