Abstract
The article considers the realization of one of the most active and stable metaphorical language models based on the development of secondary meanings of the Slavs’ food names and known as the culinary code, from the linguocultural and linguo-didactic standpoint. Culinary cultural code “encodes” our understanding of the world through food images having names. The author’s goal is to reveal the general and the specific in the development of secondary names of food; consider the food names specific for the ethnic cultures being compared, tracing their fate in the secondary semiosis - in metaphores, similes, phraseological expressions, proverbs - on the material of nouns in two Slavic languages, Russian and Czech. The article concludes that the facts of secondary naming transmitting culinary code often carry culturological information, objectify particular perceptions of the world by different ethnic groups, even those going back to the common Proto-Slavic roots. Bilingual comparison of lexical units transmitting cultural code allows a certain way of organizing lexical material for it to be studied by non-Russian Slavic audiences. On the basis of the linguocultural analysis of food names in the two compared Slavic languages, the article offers linguo-didactic grouping of the vocabulary in their figuratve meanings, in accordance with the belonging to a particular culture code. This will ensure effective mastering of the vocabulary of a certain thematic group not only in the denotative, but also in the conceptual meaning, making it possible to comprehend the culture, transmitted by the closely related language under study, in comparison with the native culture.
Highlights
Apart from their direct, naming function, certain names of the objects in the world around us are often used in a secondary, metaphorical sense, objectifying our attitude to another object or phenomenon of reality
The article used the techniques of etymological and linguocultural comment to analyze the internal form of lexical units, which determined the vectors of their semantic spread, the integrative study of vocabulary and phraseology of two Slavic languages on the background of the cultural and historical facts of the peoples speaking these languages, to interpret food traditions as a cultural and historical basis for the formation of typical symbolic images included in the language systems of the compared languages
In comparison with other studies, devoted to the analysis of lexical units verbalizing culinary cultural code, this article chooses to analyze only ancient Slavic names of food, traces their semantic development, ways of semantic spread, demonstrates the specifics of the conceptual worldview of the Russian language community with respect to the relatively close Czech linguistic culture
Summary
Apart from their direct, naming function, certain names of the objects in the world around us are often used in a secondary, metaphorical sense, objectifying our attitude to another object or phenomenon of reality. “The names, denominating such objects, form interrelated secondary semiotic systems, which we call codes (somatic, zoomorphic, natural-and-landscape etc.) of the national culture” [1. A culture code is a regulatory and value symbolic system of secondary denotation and manifests itself in the categorization and conceptualization of reality. Cultural codes are called that way because they “encode” our understanding of the world, express it through certain images, which already have names. They occupy the central position in the national cultural space, forming it structurally. As for the national culture itself, it acts as a set of different codes
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