Concept "valuation": distinguishing characteristics and possible stages of its objectivization

The article deals with the results of the concept «valuation» research undertaken within the analysis of the conceptual domain "valuation". The analysis is carried out on the data of economic Russian and English texts. The category "valuation" is approached as a multifaceted one, revealing its ontological, semantic and epistemological characteristics. Within the framework of the cognitive linguistic approach the author identifies this concept's differentiating properties, which determine the ways of its objectivization and represent it as a global phenomenon having no reference to a concrete object but to all aspects of human life. The article describes the step-by-step method for the concept objectivization, which results in the conceptual domain interpreted as a modular one.