Abstract

The article is devoted to the solution of several issues. The first one is the consideration of cultural linguistics as a modern science studying features of culture which are reflected in the specific language of the specific country. The second issue concerns studying and analyzing linguistic units used to create the image of V.V. Putin in British, American and Spanish news articles not older than three years. The article presents some cases of cultural influence on linguistic units chosen by the authors to describe V. Putin’s image. The reason for the choice is explained by the high frequency of V. Putin’s name referring in international news agencies, newspapers and magazines and historical and cultural features of two different cultures that have a serious impact on the way of perceiving and describing V. Putin. The article shows some particularities of the variation of the English and Spanish languages used to make the image of V. Putin. The article provides some information on the numbers of English and Spanish native speakers. The research is held by means of modern journalistic English and Spanish languages. Contrastive-comparative and contextual analysis, lingo-stylistical and continuous sampling and content methods were used in the research.

Highlights

  • Cultural linguistics cross-disciplinary character is based on several humanitarian disciplines

  • It was described that cultural information was situated in language units, that means while studying the language we can have an access to the culture of a certain people in a certain country

  • In this article we study linguistic units used for creation of politician www.amazoniainvestiga.info image and the connection between these units choice and the cultural particularities of their authors

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Introduction

Cultural linguistics cross-disciplinary character is based on several humanitarian disciplines. That is why cultural linguistics itself considers to be a new interdisciplinary trend in scientific researches which forms the basis for another aspect of language data interpretation. The description and analysis of the data helped to form the scientific understanding that language units are characterized by semantic meaning and by additional information about culture, cultural values, moral standards etc. It was described that cultural information was situated in language units, that means while studying the language we can have an access to the culture of a certain people in a certain country As this idea spread, it was understood that there was a necessity of theoretical knowledge and the description of an object and subject of the new linguistic science. The main idea of the descried linguistics paradigm is to understand the people’s cultural and moral values, which can be found in their language

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