Different approaches to the definition and study of concepts are analyzed in the article. It is noted that at the present time the most common are linguistic, linguocognitive, linguocultural, psycholinguistic approaches that consider the concept from the point of view of certain invariant features. The relevance of conceptual research led to the emergence of a new direction of linguistics - linguo-conceptology, dealing with the study of objectified in the language of cultural concepts. Within the framework of this direction, it becomes possible to compare the concepts of one linguistic culture with some other one.