The article is devoted to the phenomenon of "parentality" as a universal cultural value correlated with different views and notions in different fields of humanitarian knowledge. The authors represent the evolution of the concept "parentality" in different scientific fields using the analytical, synchronousdiachronic and comparative methods. The research purpose is to study the semantic development of the "parentality" lexeme in English, French, and Russian, to define the conceptualization of this notion in the study of modern problems of the family. From the standpoint of cognitive linguistics we determine the historical periods with the maximum semantic activity of the corresponding notion. The authors define the conceptualization of this notion in the study of the modern problems of childhood, family, and upbringing. The authors analyze the phenomenon under study in the English, French, and Russian languages in synchronic-diachronic terms. The authors of the article denote the additional meanings, the phenomena of synonymy and polysemy in the denomination of the types of "parentality" within different scientific fields, the mechanisms in the formation of the figurative meaning of this lexical unit in the process of the evolution of the term "parentality". In this context the authors substantiate the interdisciplinary strategies of the modern science of the family and upbringing, the use of a rich arsenal of humanitarian knowledge.

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