Verbalization of the concept of friendship in the novel of H. Hosseini The kite runner

In this study, we examine the significance of the FRIENDSHIP concept in H. Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner from a linguocultural point of view. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of lexical units involved in the verbalization of the FRIENDSHIP concept in the analyzed work, as well as to consider the structural field of this concept. The stated goal involves solving the following tasks: to describe the lexical units that verbalize the FRIENDSHIP concept and provide a classification into thematic groups, to structure the means of verbalizing the FRIENDSHIP concept in the analyzed work from the standpoint of the field approach (to determine the core, near and far periphery).