LINGUOAXIOLOGY OF KINSHIP IN THE HISTORY OF EASTERN SLAVIC CULTURE

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the language-systemic means of embodiment of the idea of kinship in ancient Eastern Slavic culture and the reconstruction of its conceptual base. Research of the dynamics of semantic and nominative space in the history of Russian culture allowed for the extraction of applicable/nonapplicable, evaluative, and semanticdensity of the following concept in historical retrospect. The ideological potential of kinship in current Russian discourse of international relations, where the module of kinship (brotherhood) of Eastern Slavic peoples is used as a frequent metaphorical model, forms semantic continuity of the axiocategory of kinship in Russian linguaculture. Its relevance is supported by language facts such as: the dense nominative field of kinship; frequency oflexemes related to kinship retains its high scores as shown by the Russian National Corpus; analysis of parallel corpuses of Eastern Slavic languages confirms the semantic continuity of the idea of kinship. Additional evidence from parallel corpuses will allow the confirmation or rejection of the idea of linguospecificity of the nominative field of kinship in modern Slavic linguacultures.