Linguistic and cultural landscapes in interdisciplinary interaction: modern approaches to research

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern approaches to the study of linguistic and cultural landscapes in the context of interdisciplinary research. Linguistic landscape, as a scientific concept and approach, took shape in the 1990s. Initially focused on visible linguistic signs, it rapidly assimilates polymodal aspects of linguistic space. Such space expands from the physical to the social, symbolic and virtual. The study of the cultural landscape began with morphological and scientist branches. They developed over the course of a century, and by the end of the XXth century were enriched by the inclusion of spatial symbols, semantics, narratives and competing sociospatial discourses. The subject of the study is the analysis of interpretations of linguistic and cultural landscapes, approaches and methods formulated under the influence of worldview paradigms. The methodological basis is a comparative analysis of subject areas based on new cultural geography, sociology and linguistics. The novelty of the study lies in comparing key metaphors and trends in the theoretical evolution of the concepts of linguistic and cultural landscape, finding potential points of contact and mutual integration. The trajectories of theorizing linguistic and cultural landscapes reveal a substantive similarity with different rates of development of new research domains. As a result, the evolution of linguistic and cultural landscapes studies, the expansion of their subject area, the formation of fields of attraction and new opportunities in the study of personality, society and space were revealed. The potential for interdisciplinary interaction of the concepts of linguistic and cultural landscapes with related disciplines is considered: ethnogeography, cultural geography, philosophy and cultural studies. It is shown that the integration of linguolandscape and cultural-landscape approaches can help resolve methodological difficulties encountered in the study of local communities and thair ethnocultural landscapes.