The monograph considers ethno-specific concepts - fixed in culture and embodied in the language mental formations expressing the character of the people. The place of these mental formations in the system of concepts of linguistic and cultural studies is determined and three different concepts are described in detail, which in a concentrated form express the values ​ ​ of English, German and French linguistic cultures - "privacy," "punctuality," "ability to live. "Addressed to philologists and a wide range of researchers who develop problems of cultural studies and intercultural communication.