TY - JOUR AU - Svetlana Loba PY - 2017/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - FRAME STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT “MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION” JF - Anglistics and Americanistics JA - EAS VL - 0 IS - 14 SE - RELEVANT ISSUES OF LINGUISTICS DO - UR - https://anglistika.dp.ua/index.php/AA/article/view/188 AB - The research represents various definitions of the notion “concept” as well as its main characteristics. Besides, the article also reveals the theoretical background of “frame semantics”, examines the concept “Multilingual education”, elucidates the peculiarities of the frame structure of multilingual education. Moreover, the lexemes which are used to represent the concept “Multilingual education” have been singled out. In the process of research it has been found out that there exist two main approaches to the study of the notion “concept” in modern linguistics: the frame as well as the field structure. With a view to describe the structure the concept “Multilingual education” and to define its peculiarities, the theory of “Frame semantics”, which was introduced by Ch. Fillmore, has been applied. A frame is formed with the help of slots, which make up its nucleus and basic structure. About 150 lexical units have been singled out to be the factual material for the current research. These lexemes verbalize different aspects of Multilingual education. Having carried out the research, 6 slots, composing the basic structure of the concept “Multilingual education”, have been singled out: “Organization of learning and teaching process”, “Administration of Educational Institution”, “Structure of Educational Institution”, “Multilingual programs”, “Multilingual communities”. On the basis of the study it has been proved that the slot “Organization of learning and teaching process” is the most abundant one, as the notions it represents are general terms which are widely used with the same meaning in different spheres. However, such slots as “Multilingual programs”, “Multilingual communities” include various verbal representations of the same notions. Such a phenomenon can be explained with the fact that the concept “Multilingualism” has not been investigated profoundly by scholars. ER -