The book contains up-to-date knowledge on cognitive linguistics, a branch of science that was born at the turn of the millennium. The most important object of research in cognitive linguistics is the concept. This is a mental entity that has a name in language and reflects a person’s cultural and national understanding of reality. The manual presents the categories of culture that are embedded in the concepts: space, time and number, truth and truth, friendship and joy, etc. For students, graduate students, teachers of philological departments of universities, as well as representatives of other humanitarian specialties.