The relevance of the work is determined by the fact that, although the interaction of history, culture and language is constantly in the field of view of linguists, historians, linguoculturologists, as well as all those who study the evolution of a particular language, it has not yet received a complete analysis in detail, in particular, when describing the language pictures of different countries. The aim of the work is to prove that the semantics of the words of nominating titles of the English nobility of the Victorian era has not changed. The materials for the work were modern and classical, starting from the XIX century, word usage from the English language, contained in modern media texts from Internet sources, as well as the texts of novels by English writers of the late XIX century. At least 2000 such word usages were analyzed using the method of etymological analysis, the method of semantic analysis and the method of functional analysis, which allowed us to obtain a reliable picture of their functioning. The triple union of history, culture and language in the approach to the study of linguistic pictures of different countries is at the center of research in recent years. The interaction of these phenomena has become the subject of close attention in many articles and dissertations of linguists, historians, linguoculturologists, as well as all those who study the evolution of a particular language. Lexemes denoting the noble status of a person are important concepts of the British national linguistic picture of the world and culture. The semantics of lexemes was studied according to lexicographic sources. The sources of examples of contextual use were the texts of novels by English writers of the late XIX century and modern English-language texts of the Internet: online versions of newspapers, advertising texts, blogs. To achieve the goal of our research, the article uses such methods as the method of continuous sampling, the method of lexicographic description, the comparative method, the statistical method, and a number of others.

The article concerns identification of semantic potential of lexical units with a Germanic origin joined into thematic group "English titles of nobility", and actualization of their meanings in the literary texts of the 19 th century. The sources of language material were the works of early Victorian period writers. The undertaken semantic and functional analysis of lexemes earl, knight, lord / lady enabled the author to conclude that when they indicate social status of the character depicted in the work of art or are used as an etiquette form of address, they implement direct meaning. It has been noted that alongside with lord / lady, the French loanwords sir / madame are used as forms of polite address in dialogues between the characters. The lexemes-titles can function in figurative meaning, i.e. knight maybe used to indicate valour as one of the main qualities of a noble person of high social status, Lord is used to denote the Creator, lady – to speak about any woman, as well as a wife, a mistress. The analysis of the data obtained resulted in deduction that in literary texts of the 19 th century the meanings of lexemes-titles, comprising thematic group English Nobility Titles, can express the following: the noble origin in the name of a person, a polite form of address in communication, nomination of a social status as well as some commonly shared character traits inherent to an aristocratic class representative; nomination of people in accordance with a family status or gender.

The article concerns the language units, forming the semantics of festivities in one of the most popular works by Charles Dickens - the great English writer of Victorian Era, namely A Christmas Carol (1843). This work has been the subject for a lot of research, the story however is not investigated within the framework of some allied sciences. An attempt to use linguistic, linguistic culture and literary criticism approaches has been made to analyze the story. The eleven theme groups were found and the linguistic units were picked up. Those units create the unique picture of Christmas festivities. The examples from the text are analyzed. Around one thousand language units describing Christmas are analyzed. The conclusion is made that the writer created the morally important, educating work. At the same time, he attracted attention to Christmas in Britain, criticizing the drawbacks of the society as well as in Victorian England. The palette of stylistic and language means is rich and wonderful.

УДК 81.37 Г.Т. БЕЗКОРОВАЙНАЯ, кандидат филологических наук, старший преподаватель кафедры иностранных языков Московского государственного университета печати имени Ивана Фёдорова (Российская Федерация) ВКЛЮЧЕНИЕ КУЛЬТУРНОГО КОНТЕКСТА В ТОЛКОВАНИЕ НАЦИОНАЛЬНО-СПЕЦИФИЧЕСКИХ КОНЦЕПТОВ В статье рассматривается один из важнейших концептов английской языковой картины мира «gentleman» с точки зрения его осмысления в культурном контексте при обучении английскому язы-gentleman» с точки зрения его осмысления в культурном контексте при обучении английскому язы-» с точки зрения его осмысления в культурном контексте при обучении английскому язы-с точки зрения его осмысления в культурном контексте при обучении английскому языку студентов-гуманитариев и его отражение в толково-энциклопедическом словаре. Проведен анализ структуры и содержания словарной статьи. В подстатьях и цитатах, приведенных в Большом Оксфордском словаре, отражена этимология, история, контексты употребления лексемы в диахронии, что позволяет получить важную культурологическую и лингвистическую информацию одновременно. Делается вывод о необходимости отсылки к толкованию национально-специфических концептов в авторитетных аутентичных словарях и перспективности дальнейшего рассмотрения их актуализации в художественных текстах. Ключевые слова� языковая картина мира, лингвокультурология, национально�специфический концепт, словарная статья, лексема, концепт gentleman.

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