Historical and sociological analysis of notional content in the concept of giftedness

The study aims at investigation of the process of creating a concept in the context of accumulating and enriching its ideological content with new meanings, using the concept of giftedness as an example. We define the nature of the concept and how it is different from other types of thought, such as the idea, the representation, the image, the concept in cultural linguistics. We used the principles and methods of historical, social and cultural, and comparative analyses. In particular, we defined the object of our research by employing the principle of differentiating between the theory and the concept. Historical analysis provided the basis for determining and characterising the following five basic stages, or ways of conceptualisation, of giftedness: the ancient one, the religion and ethics one, the empirical one, the protoscientific one (from the standpoint of specific social sciences) and the holistic one (within the framework of scientific psychology).

References
[1] Ivleva M.L. Formirovanie psikhologicheskoy kontseptsii odarennosti: teoretiko-istoricheskoe issledovanie [Formation of the psychological concept of giftedness: a theoretical historical investigation]. Moscow, Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering Publ., 2008, 304 p.
[2] Ivleva M.L. Filosofskie osnovaniya psikhologicheskoy kontseptsii odarennosti [Philosophical foundations of the psychological concept of giftedness]. Moscow, 2011, Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering Publ., 256 p.
[3] Arutyunova N.D. Vvedenie [Introduction]. In: Logicheskiy analiz yazyka. Mentalnye deystviya [Logic analysis of language. Mental actions]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1993, pp. 3–5.
[4] Lyapin S.Kh. Kontseptologiya: k stanovleniyu podkhoda [Conceptology: towards formation of the approach]. Kontsepty. Nauchnye trudy Tsentrokontsepta [Concepts. Proc. of Tsentrokontsept]. Vol. 1. Arkhangelsk, Lomonosov Pomor State University Publ., 1997, pp. 11–35.
[5] Slyshkin G.G. Lingvokulturnye kontsepty i metakontsepty [Concepts and metaconcepts in cultural linguistics]. Volgograd, Peremena Publ., 2004, p. 15.
[6] Frumkina R.M. NTI. Ser. 2. Informatsionnye protsessy i sistemy — Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 1992, no. 3, p. 6.
[7] Vezhbitskaya A. Ponimanie kultur posredstvom klyuchevykh slov [Understanding cultures through keywords]. Semanticheskie universalii i opisanie yazykov [Semantic universals and language description]. Moscow, Shkola Yazyki russkoy kultury, 1999, p. 217.
[8] Chesnokov P.V. Osnovnye edinitsy yazyka i myshleniya [Basic units of language and thought]. Rostov-na-Donu, Rostov Publ., 1966, p. 14.
[9] Kovaleva L.M. Rol SELF v kontseptualizatsii Ya [The role of SELF in the conceptualisation of I]. In: Kovaleva L.M. et al. Kognitivnyy analiz slova [Cognitive analysis of the word]. Irkutsk, Irkutsk State Academy of Economics Publ., 2000, pp. 103–126.
[10] Teliya V.N. Russkaya frazeologiya. Semanticheskiy, pragmaticheskiy i lingvokulturologicheskiy aspekty [Russian phraseology. Semantic, pragmatic and cultural linguistic aspects]. Moscow, Yazyki russkoy kultury, 1996, pp. 97, 100.
[11] Jackendoff R. Semantics and Cognition. Cambridge, Mass. L., MIT Press, 1993, р. 78.
[12] Kubryakova E.S., ed. Kratkiy slovar kognitivnykh terminov [Concise dictionary of cognitive terms]. Moscow, Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University Publ., 1997, pp. 90, 96.
[13] Popova Z.D., Sternin I.A. Ponyatie kontsept v lingvisticheskikh issledovaniyakh [The idea of the concept in linguistic research]. Voronezh, Voronezh State University Publ., 1999, p. 4.
[14] Sternin I.A. Mozhet li lingvist modelirovat strukturu kontsepta [Can a linguist model the structure of a concept]? Kognitivnaya semantika: Materialy Vtoroy mezhdunarodnoy shkoly-seminara po kognitivnoy lingvistike [Cognitive semantics: Proc. of the 2nd International workshop on cognitive lingustics]. Part 2. Tambov, Tambov State University Publ., 2000, p. 144.
[15] Popova Z.D., Sternin I.A. Ocherki po kognitivnoy lingvistike [Essays in cognitive linguistics]. Voronezh, Istoki Publ., 2001, p. 71.
[16] Novikova T.B. Tipy kulturnykh kontseptov [Types of cultural concepts]. Lingvodidakticheskie problemy mezhkulturnoy kommunikatsii [Language pedagogy issues in cross-cultural communication]. Volgograd, Volgograd State University Publ., 2003, p. 190.
[17] Stepanov Yu.S. Konstanty: slovar russkoy kultury [Constants: a dictionary of Russian culture]. Moscow, Akademicheskiy Proekt Publ., 2001, p. 75.
[18] Krasnykh V.V. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Ser. 9. Filologiya — Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 9. Philology, 1998, no. 1, p. 55.
[19] Kubryakova E.S. Ob odnom fragmente kontseptualnogo analiza slova pamyat [On a fragment of conceptual analysis of the word “memory”]. Logicheskiy analiz yazyka: kulturnye kontsepty [Logic analysis of language: cultural concepts]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1991, p. 89.
[20] Sternin I.A., Bykova G.V. Kontsepty i lakuny [Concepts and gaps]. Yazykovoe soznanie: Formirovanie i funktsii [Linguistic consciousness: formation and functions]. Moscow, 1998, p. 56.
[21] Cherneyko L.O. Lingvofilosofskiy analiz abstraktnogo imeni [Linguistic and philosophical analysis of the abstract noun]. Moscow, Editorial URSS Publ., 2010, 265 p.
[22] Semkina N.A. Kontsepty i ikh svyazi v tekste [Concepts and connections between them in a text]. Tekst i diskurs: traditsionnyy i kognitivno-funktsionalnyy aspekty issledovaniya [Text and discourse: traditional and cognitive and functional aspects of research]. Ryazan, Ryazan State Pedagogical University Publ., 2002, p. 113.
[23] Vertelova I.Yu. Kontseptualizatsiya vnutrennego mira cheloveka v russkom yazyke: psikhicheskie sostoyaniya pechali. Avtoref. diss. ... cand. filol. nauk [Conceptualisation of the inner world of a person in Russian: mental states of sadness. Autoref. cand. philol. sc. diss.]. Kaliningrad, 2001, p. 14.
[24] Berestnev G.I. Filologicheskie nauki — Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, 1997, no. 4, pp. 4, 47–55.
[25] Stepanova A. Filosofiya drevney Stoi [Philosophy of Ancient Stoa]. Saint Petersburg, Aleteyya Publ., 1995, pp. 134–139.