A Typology of Frame-Based Models of Intellectual Concepts in Kazakh, Russian, and English Linguacultures

Abstract

The relevance of this study is driven by the growing interest of modern linguistics in the contrastive analysis of the intellectual conceptosphere and the need to identify universal and culture-specific mechanisms of conceptualizing thinking across different linguacultures. The aim of the study is to develop a typology of frame-based models of intellectual concepts in Kazakh, Russian, and English linguacultures on the basis of their cognitive-semantic and linguacultural comparison. The methodology combines frame analysis, a typological approach, and linguacultural analysis, drawing on a corpus of texts representing different genres and discourse types. The scientific novelty of the study lies in identifying and systematizing semantic domains of intellectual concepts as internal cognitive–semantic subsystems that form hierarchically organized frame-based models. The results establish the dominant types of conceptualization of the intellectual domain and identify universal and culture-specific elements of the frame structure of concepts across the three languages. The main conclusions confirm the productivity of frame-based and typological approaches for analyzing the intellectual conceptosphere and demonstrate their potential for intercultural comparison and further cognitive-linguistic research.