Review of the Monograph by E. A. Bazhenova, V. I. Shenkman “The Concept of School and Its Discursive Realization”.

The dominant role of the school in the life of modern society, its significance for the education and upbringing of the younger generation, the importance of analyzing ideas about the up-to-date school, the need to develop a methodology for conceptualizing the concept of school in the mass consciousness determined the relevance of the monograph by E. A. Bazhenova and V. I. Shenkman.A descriptive method and methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization were used in the monograph. The scientific novelty of the monograph is due to a comprehensive description of the content of the school concept based on the existing stereotypes of native speakers of the Russian language with use of various sources, including song discourse and Internet discourse. The study by E. A. Bazhenova and V. I. Shenkman was carried out in line with the modern cognitive-discursive paradigm of linguistic knowledge based on the analysis of the school concept at the present stage of its comprehension by Russian native speakers and in the aspect of diachrony. The integrated approach with lexico-semantic, functional, discursive analysis of the lexical representatives of this concept, the use of a comparative analysis of their actual meanings in the context of various discursive practices with the usual semantics of these units based on numerous lexicographic sources, allowed the authors of the monograph to identify and deeply and systematically describe the content of the concept of school. The monograph identifies the main trends in the interpretation of the concept and the dynamics of ideas about the school in the collective consciousness of Russians. The main factors that are associated with these changes were determined in the monograph.The extensive empirical and lexicographic material used in the monograph (52 dictionaries), reliance on modern achievements in linguistics and its methodology determine the reliability and validity of the results obtained in the study. The monograph by E. A. Bazhenova and V. I. Shenkman, due to its relevance, theoretical and practical significance, will be in demand by specialists in cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, functional stylistics, in the university practice of teaching these disciplines, as well as by everyone who is interested in the problems of modern education. The material of the monograph is of interest to teachers, psychologists, and sociologists.

school, lexico-semantic and functional analysis, discourse, discursive realization, song discourse, Internet commentary