Key words: discourse, concept, notion, lexical meaning, the contents, internal form, sense, morpheme, semem, sem.
The article is a try to make a hierarchical system of semantic categories, which altogether will serve as a basic foundation for the formation of a discourse field. Certainly, the suggested reglamentation of non-semantically monomeaningful terms can be considered arguable, but the given concept, though being to some extent simplified, contributes to working out more or less matched and non-controversial approaches of linguists to interpreting such compound categories for practical studies.