The study deals with the NSM analysis, developed by A. Wierzbicka, and its essence to develop the prototype structure of the basic social categories. The hypothesis questioned within this paper: 'Are the NSM analysis results of the category areprone to determine its prototype?'.The work of Sapir Whorf claims that the linguistic systems of the "pictures of the world" are incompatible with each other, whereas Wierzbicka, on the contrary, asserts that culturally specific concepts are well

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... e, as they can betranslated into a universal language that excludesthese differences. Thus, the language of semantic primitives – NSM, demonstrating its expressive capacity, restricts the set of the meanings for max-imum that refuses further decomposition, the onlyway the semantic content of any complex expression can be made explicitly in full detail.