Phraseological means to explicate the concept of boredom and its cognitive features in the works and letters of Anton Chekhov

This paper is dedicated to the description of phraseological means representing the concept of boredom and cognitive features of its content. The established language units are used as a material for designing of the field model of the concept of boredom with а coreperipheral structure. These phraseological means occupy a niche on the near periphery and make it possible to speak about the features of language conscious-ness that is a part of the general, cognitive.