Language Temporality as Culture Metaphor

Abstract

The article considers issues of defining language temporality through content for communication between language and thinking in the world conceptualization regarding the ideas of time developing in culture. The author notes the role of the person in modeling language temporality based on which the general worldview reflecting existential understanding of culture is constructed. Moreover, the author underlines that consideration of language temporality is defined by specifics of time perception as the objected universal forming a conceptual basis of culture. Metaphorical ways of exteriorization of language temporality in perception of typical repeatability of an event row are revealed (B. L. Whorf). The author considers metaphorization of culture in implementing language temporality through the identification of time and human life. In addition, the author notes that integration of models between time and life is not always subjected to logical coordination and definition. Time as a natural process represents the movement caused by natural laws, which set the formalized principles of the consecutive changes, which are abstractly presented in the straight line (infinity). However, assessment and understanding of the movement direction is possible if the straight line becomes discrete, as only in this case it is possible to speak about the components of the whole pointing out its sense, that is possible to present in the form of the points located on the straight line. This discretization defines differences in understanding of time that is dictated by metaphorical sense of language temporality and culture, since a lack of opportunities for unambiguous interpretation of changes generate modifications of meanings which lie in the nature of defining time and its goal-setting