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Semiotic Development Potential of Henry Lawson’s Individual Concept “Mate/Mateship”
The paper envisages semiotic development potential of semantic structure of individual concept “Mate” created by Henry Lawson. The image in question is iconic for Australian culture. A certain share of idealization and romantization entails further development of the semantic meaning of this concept. The rooted semantic components of the concept-image “Mate” gradually turned into concept-symbol “Mateship”. H. Lawson was the ёrst Australian author, who made this concept one of the core concepts of Australian culture. Moreover, “Mateship” reяects the historical development of socio-economic relations within Australian society in 19 – 20 centuries. Having identiёed axiological meaning of the concepts “Mate / Mateship”, we could be aware of the basic values of Australians as a nation, and understand connections of the language and society.