DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN THE DIACHRONIC STUDY OF LEXICAL SEMANTICS                      

Kolokolnikova Marina Yuryevna, Candidate of philological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of English philology, Institute of Philology and Journalism, Saratov State University, marinaugustina@ mail.ru 

811.1’04’37 

This article is devoted to the problems of interaction between lexical semantics and conceptual dominants of the socially significant discourse. The investigation centres on the semantic and functional development of moral-ethical lexis in the West European medieval religious discourse. 

lexical semantics; historical development; religious discourse; moralethical sphere.