ABSTRACT
The article examines the axiological status of the concept "strange" in journalistic articles devoted to SARS-CoV-2. The axiological interpretation of the concept in question occurs through various subjective and objective value judgments. The purpose of the article is an axiological analysis of the concept "strange", which reveals hidden or explicit, positive, negative or neutral evaluative meanings of this concept in the modern English language picture of the world. Through the study of the axiological component of the concepts, the specificity and mental preferences are displayed not only of an individual specific linguistic personality, but also of the people as a whole in a certain period of time. Through the prism of the axiological analysis of concepts the peculiarities of the value preferences of a linguistic personality are revealed, which outside the context can acquire a different axiological status. Thus, after the study of the concept "strange" it was revealed that this concept has a negative axiological status in the axiosphere of the English language picture of the world.