Basic Constituents Of The National Linguistic Picture Of The World

Abstract

The problem of national mentality has always been the object of close attention of scientists. In this regard, studies of the regional cultural and spiritual characteristics of the Russian people themselves through the prism of language are promising, since they broadcast the historical features of the formation of the national language and mentality, respectively. Our scientific view is directed primarily to the dialect, since it is the dialect as a mode of human existence that is the linguistic and «mental» foundation of the nation. In this article, we attempted to describe the dialect linguistic personality as a typical representative of the Russian peasantry, the bearer of folklore wealth, the Orthodox faith. In an attempt to reveal the foundations of the formation of the Russian national mentality, we analyzed the functioning, updating the concept of «God» in the national linguistic picture of the world from the perspective of diachrony and synchrony. Our focus is not only on man, his language, but also wider – the vision of the world by man, due to language, the connection of language and culture, reflection in the language of the human worldview, language as an instrument for creating, broadcasting, storing and transmitting linguistic and cultural traditions and national mentality.