Концептосфера «проспективность» в эвристической мыслительной деятельности и ее роль в процессе коммуникации (межъязыковой аспект)

The given article presents the analysis of linguistic means used to express the conceptual sphere “Prospectiveness” in both Russian and English languages. The concepts under investigation are: imagination, anticipation, prediction, foreseeing. Great attention in the article is paid to imagination which is a key concept in the conceptual sphere “Prospectiveness”. Concept Imagination is analysed in both English and Russian linguistic world pictures, but a great value is given to its functionary in the English language from the scientific point of view and from the point of view of common sense which is represented in the “naive” linguistic world picture. A great body of English contexts is presented in the article to illustrate the usage of these abstract concepts as well as their definition in Russian and English dictionaries.