Abstract
The present work makes a contribution to the study of the reflection of the causal category in human consciousness. In theoretical aspects, the paper is based on the approach of frame semantics. It is an attempt to present a conceptual model of causal relationships within the interaction of discourse elements and knowledge framework of the recipient. The linguistic causality is a knowledge structure that reflects the objective causal relationships in language consciousness of Russian speakers. In the paper, the linguistic and cultural specificity of the cognitive content of the causal volitional frames and their means of expression in Russian are empirically determined and analyzed.