The ethno-cultural essence of linguistic consciousness
| Autor | Nikolay F. Alefirenko - Olga V. Dekhnich - Olga Y. Romashina - Olga I. Avdeeva |
| Cargo | Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Hradec Králové University, Czech Republic. - Department of English Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication, Institute for Cross-Cultural Communication and International Relations, Belgorod National Research University, Russia. - Department of English Philology and Cross-... |
| Páginas | 285-300 |
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THE ETHNO-CULTURAL ESSENCE OF LINGUISTIC
CONSCIOUSNESS
Nikolay F. Alefirenko1
Olga V. Dekhnich2
Olga Y. Romashina3
Olga I. Avdeeva4
Abstract. Each culture is based on a
specific system of subject meanings,
social stereotypes and cognition patterns.
The “worldview” invariant is
determined by socially developed
supports (by meanings, in the first
place). In its turn, there may be a
worldview which is common for the
whole society (for a socio-cultural
community or ethnos) or an individual
one typical of a specific group (a socio-
cultural group) within a given ethnos. In
the process of ontogenesis, a child
learns words in its native language,
while lying behind these words is an
integral image of consciousness
comprising two layers. The first layer is
1 Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Hradec Králové
University, Czech Republic.
2 Department of English Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication, Institute for Cross-
Cultural Communication and International Relations, Belgorod National Research University,
Russia.
3 Department of English Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication, Institute for Cross-
Cultural Communication and International Relations, Belgorod National Research University,
Russia.
4 Department of General Linguistics, Institute of Philology, Moscow Pedagogical State
University, Russia.
the existential one. It includes the bio-
dynamic tissue of live movement and
action, as well as a sensory image. The
second layer is the reflexive one, which
includes meaning and sense. Behind a
language sign, there is an organic cell,
which is part of a worldview typical of a
specific culture. The systemic character
of meanings reflects the system of
concepts existing in a given culture, in a
Universe structure (worldview) formed
within this culture. It is the association
component represented by figurative and
metaphoric connotations that determines
the semantic content of a cultural
concept.
Key words: ethnic culture,
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lexical meaning, connotations, world
view, mentality, linguistic
consciousness.
Introduction.
Postmodernism gave rise to a
system of values where culture is a
system of signs, and ethno-linguistic
consciousness is a psychic mechanism of
interpreting signs in terms of a specific
linguistic culture. Language is
understood by postmodernists as a
system of behavioral guidance, with text
reference being quite significant. It
results in a correlation between the non-
linear worldview and non-linear
linguistic worldview.
Consciousness and text are the
main categories of Jacques Derrida’s
theory [1]. Post-structuralists perceive
the world through the lens of
consciousness, as a phenomenon of
written culture, thus equaling individual
identity to an aggregate of various texts
which constitutes the world of culture.
We see ethnocultural
consciousness as a result of reflection,
perception and interpretation of the
worldview in compliance with a specific
system of values and meanings which
outline the content of national cultures.
The specifics of each ethnic culture are
determined by a structurized corpus of
fundamental spiritual values, customs
and traditions encoded in oral and
written literature. It is idioms, paremiae,
linguistic metaphors and invariable
figures of speech that have some
ethnocultural significance. These
language structures provide a vivid
representation of things (objects, facts
and events) which are most important for
a given ethnic culture. Ideas of culturally
significant objects, events and facts
recorded in concepts are connected with
prototypical characteristics of various
object classes. We hereby understand
prototypical characteristics as properties
which characterize objects belonging to
a specific class. Such properties and
their hierarchy are nation-specific. In
other words, the same objects may be
perceived and encoded by
ethnolinguistic consciousness in
compliance with the ideas of this object
class existing in a respective
ethnocultural community. However, the
logic of their conceptualization remains
the same.
Similar concepts may have
different verbal representations in
different languages. Let us compare
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