Cognitive Linguistics

Approaches to studying Concept
There are a few approaches to studying Concept distinguished correspondingly to the leading factor, aspect, scientific angle of view, method which grounds the platform for the research.
Approaches:

1. 
   Cultural Approach (Uriy Stepanov) studies concepts as elements of culture and grounds its research on the data of different sciences; Language here is one of the sources of the knowledge about concepts;
   
2. 
   Linguistic Cultural Approach (Vladimir Karasik, Sergey Vorkachev, etc.) understands concepts as language units and studies them as elements of national linguistic Culture in their correspondence with national values and national peculiarities of a definite culture (the approach from a language to a culture);
   
3. 
   Logical Approach (Natalia Arutjunova and others) study concepts with methods of Logics without direct dependency from Language;
   
4. 
   Semantic Cognitive Approach (Helen Kubriakova, Ivan Sternin, etc.) studies lexical and grammatical semantics of Language as a means of understanding the content of concepts and as a means of their modeling from the semantics of a language to a definite Sphere of Concepts.
   

5. Method (Approach) of Metaphor (Western approach of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson) treats Concept as a peculiar metaphor with a series of transferred meanings kept in it.