Abstract
The article describes aphoristics as an integral part of the language and culture studies reflecting the value system of the people's mentality diachronically and synchronically. Russian aphoristics has been preserving national identity, morale and values throughout centuries, for generations transferring cultural and historic memory of the people. However, aphoristics reflects not only unique, specific features of Russian culture and mentality but also demonstrates unanimity of the culture codes and the universal character of human values. The study specially focuses on the Russian aphoristics sphere of concepts whereas, possible to outline and depict dozens of concepts specified on the level of culture as well. The concept LANGUAGE represents one of the key concepts of the human cognitive system, hence it is widely and diversely exposed in the corpus of the Russian aphoristics of the 18th-21st centuries. In aphoristics, LANGUAGE emerges in different ways. In Russian aphoristics, the specification of the concept LANGUAGE has got an ambivalent nature. Here LANGUAGE is realized in the homonymic phraseo-semantic field being verbalized by means of the most frequent components of the core and periphery of the phraseo-semantic field: LANGUAGE (Russian language, native tongue), foreign LANGUAGE, word, parole, syllable, etc.
Highlights
В статье говорится о том, что афористика является неотъемлемой частью языка и культуры, отражает ценностную парадигму ментальности народа в синхронии и диахронии
LANGUAGE is realized in the homonymic phraseo-semantic field being verbalized by means of the most frequent components of the core and periphery of the phraseo-semantic field: LANGUAGE (Russian language, native tongue), foreign LANGUAGE, word, parole, syllable, etc
One can insist that in the Russian aphoristics in course of applying the concept LANGUAGE, we can observe the reflection of individual linguistic worldviews making up as a whole the national worldview which possesses specific ontology
Summary
Language is the confession of a nation; the people’s nature, soul and life are sound in language. The 19th century there appear aphorisms which state that natural borrowings could be favourable for the Russian language (A.S. Pushkin artfully wrote about it). Any concept in course of implementation in language and speech reflects the aspects of the national conceptual worldview. In the Russian national conceptual worldview the concept of LANGUAGE (WORD) was always thought as something sacral. In the 18th—21st centuries, as a leading principle, the great number of sayings attributed the power or might of LANGUAGE (WORD). A great many aphorisms tells us about strong connection between the language and the soul of a nation. One can insist that in the Russian aphoristics in course of applying the concept LANGUAGE, we can observe the reflection of individual linguistic worldviews making up as a whole the national worldview which possesses specific ontology
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