Cultural Codes Research Articles

ГАСТРОНОМИЯ КАК СИМВОЛИЧЕСКИЙ ФЕНОМЕН

The article considers gastronomy/gastronomic culture as a symbolic phenomenon. Within the framework of intercultural communication the attitude to food is expressed symbolically as well. The symbolism of gastronomic culture reflects the peculiarities of a particular epoch in the development of both mankind and a separate state. Thus, primitive people, eating the meat of a predator, acquired its strength, hence strength became the symbol of food; etc., or in the Soviet period the symbols and signs of gastronomic culture reflected the existing political system.From linguistic and cultural point of view, gastronomic culture is a certain set of characteristic groups of words that denote symbols, signs and codes of gastronomic culture. It is in the symbolic nature of this culture, expressed by symbols and signs, that the most important difference between culture itself and its components (for example, cooking), which are taken by ordinary people for gastronomy.

Метафора дыма: реконструкция культурных смыслов (на материале якутской лингвокультуры)

The paper examines the linguistic and cultural semantics of the Yakut word buruo (smoke) by exploring its metaphorical manifestations in vocabulary, phraseology, and folklore. The folklore text is analyzed using a structural-semiotic approach to examine language as a cultural verbal code. For the first time, the smoke metaphor is recognized as a source of riddles, proverbs, good wishes, incantations, euphemisms, and others. Otherwise, the metaphor is found to have meaning- and text-forming functions. In the Yakut linguoculture, the smoke metaphor creates a micro paradigm of linguistic units with the general semantics of “descendants, a continuation of the family.” The metaphor under study is suggested to be a cultural element of the Sakha people’s folklore, specifically related to the patriarchal family structure and the roles of sons and daughters in procreation. The smoke metaphor, a tool for creating new concepts and pictorial means in language and culture, proves to be an element of the informational structures of oral collective memory. It preserves the principle of patrilineage, gender stereotypes, and traditional ideas of the Sakha people about the succession of generations and procreation, understood as “development, advancement through stages of development.” A significant finding is that a polysemous word, phraseology, paremy, epithet, folklore formula, symbol, and others can preserve considerable information in a coiled form and serve as an optimal way of its oral transmission in time and space. To conclude, folklore text metaphors are not only emotionally rich but also involve “condensed” meaning, with a symbol representing the information compression.

К вопросу о семиотической интерпретации пространства неопротестантского богослужения

The article attempts to conduct a semiotic analysis of the space of neo-Protestant worship. For this purpose, as a methodological tool, general cultural spatial codes were used. The danger of semiotic error in determining the hierarchy of levels of expression and content is noted. The object of research is considered – the space of neo-Protestant worship. A semiotic comparative analysis of this space and the traditional Christian temple is made. Groups of spatial codes are considered in detail, their denotative and connotative interpretation is carried out. The emphasis is placed on the elements of visual semiotics of the space of neo-Protestant worship. The semiotic transformation of the hierophanic code is noted. The problem of aesthetics of neo-Protestant worship is posed.

ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ Д. В. ПИВОВАРОВА: ВЕКТОРЫ РЕЛИГИОЗНОЙ ДУХОВНОСТИ

The relevance of the study of D. V. Pivovarov’s philosophical heritage, his proposed approach to under¬standing religious spirituality, the developed concept of forms of religion and religiosity (cosmocentrism, egocentrism, sociocentrism) is related to the fact that today Russia is in search of that spiritual foundation that could unite all Rus¬sians. The purpose of the article is to show the methodological possibilities of applying D. V. Pivovarov’s concept to com¬prehend the phenomenon of «new spirituality» expressed through such concepts introduced by modern Russian legal acts: «Russian nation», «all-Russian civil identity», «common cultural (civilizational) code of the Russian people». To describe the approach of D.V. Pivovarov, the principles of system analysis are used, which allows us to evaluate the contribution of an outstanding Ural scientist to Russian religious studies; the judgments and conclusions of the author of the concept are used as methodological guidelines for the analysis of the phenomenon of «new spirituality». As a result of the study, the authors came to the conclusion that it is possible to interpret the phenomenon of «new spirituality» as an attempt to create such a «solid core» of sacred values of the unified Russian culture, which will en¬sure the non-conflict coexistence of the ideals of cosmocentrism, sociocentrism and egocentrism. The practical significance is seen in the fact that, being an important methodological tool, the approach proposed by D. V. Pivovarov will find application in the study and explanation of new religious ideas and spiritual practices ad¬equate to the needs of the time, in the teaching of historical and religious studies courses, in assessing the effectiveness of mechanisms for strengthening Russian identity.

Cankar’s name code (novel “Nina”)

The article deals with the novel “Nina” (1906) by the prominent Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), which researchers and critics refer to as the most unusual and complex of his works. Trying to unravel one of the mysteries of the Slovenian classic and starting from the code of the name that became the title of the work, the article aims to show how the process of changing the axiological paradigm was going on in the writer’s creative laboratory, which was accompanied by a change in the onomastic code. This process is demonstrated by the history of the creation of the drama “Beautiful Vida” (1911), originally titled “Hrepenenye” – “Hrepenenje”), the work on which was going on simultaneously with the creation of the text of “Nina”. In the conceived drama, Nina acts as a character who carries all the nuances that make up the essence of this capacious term: from dreams of love and homesickness to a feeling of transcendent love that takes a person away, aspirations for everything beautiful in life. However, at the final stage of work on the play, I. Cankar deviates from the original idea and connects the symbolism of hrepenenje with the name of Beautiful Vida, a mythologem that is significant for Slovenian culture, while emphasizing in letters to friends and brother that “it will be something completely new and ours.” Thus, there is a change in the value artistic paradigm in the work of the writer, who, living in the multicultural environment of the European capital, and creating works in his native language, refuses the literary and cultural European code in favor of his national one.

Culinary code of Maslenica (Shrovetide) rites in Belarus and Podlasie

The article aims to research how the culinary code of culture manifests itself in the Shrovetide rituals of Belarus and Podlasie (a region in eastern Poland, where ethnic Belarusians live on the border with Belarus). The tasks are to analyse the names of the festive period whose origin is motivated by the culinary code, to identify Shrovetide dishes, and to characterise the role of feasts in the Shrovetide ritual cycle. The article uses ethnolinguistic methodology. The text is written based on published sources, archival and field materials collected in Belarus and Podlasie. The culinary code is one of the main elements of the Shrovetide ritual cycle: it is used to “program” the prosperity of the peasant household for the coming year and to form the majority of local names of the holiday in Belarus and Podlasie (Maslenitsa, Zapusty, Zapusti, Zagaviny, and their variants). Abundant feasts symbolically influence the prosperity in the next year according to the principles of similarity magic. Throughout Belarus dairy products and pancakes are used as festive Shrovetide food, but in local traditions, other dishes can be considered Shrovetide. The consumption of meat products in the week before Lent has religious and local peculiarities: Catholics, as well as informants whose confessional affiliation is not specified, mostly from western Belarus, consider meat dishes obligatory, while the prohibition of meat consumption is due to the influence of the Orthodox Church and local traditions. In Podlasie, during the 2022–2023 field research, informants made almost no mention of special Shrovetide dishes. The common Polish tradition of eating donuts on Fat Thursday is gradually spreading to Podlasie. Shrovetide feasts in Belarus were more often family and less often friendly-neighbourly, while in Podlasie – vice versa. The feasts remain a characteristic feature of the week before Lent in Podlasie, but dishes do not differ from those on the feasts on other holidays

Творча біографія Івана Котляревського в жанрово-крайовому контексті перших десятиліть ХХІ століття

In the article, for the first time, samples of Ukrainian artistic and biographical Kotlyarevskiana of the first decades of the 21st century are analyzed holistically in a typological and regional aspect. Biographical, cultural-historical, comparative, and psychological methods of scientific research are applied. The main object of study is the biographical literary, artistic and popular science works «The Choice of Captain Kotlyarevsky» (2020) by V. Dobryansky and «Ivan Kotlyarevsky: Between the Empire and Ukraine» (2021) by P. Kraljuk; contextual component of intelligence – biographical novels and essays of the latest writing «P. S. of Hryhoriy Skovoroda...» (2009) by M. Shtelmak, «All angels of the Triangle. Apocrypha of Grigory Skovoroda's Travels» (2012) by V. Eshkilev, «Black Apple» (2013) and «Moon, Moon» (2022) by S. Protsyuk, «Secret Agent Mykola Gogol» (2016) P. by Kraljuk, «Iron Water» (2021) by M. Layuk. They represent figures of the classics of Ukrainian literature, whose lives are connected with the Poltava region, and were created and published in the postmodern period. The intensification of scientific and literary-artistic biography (in particular, writer's) nowadays is noted, the humanitarian and civilizational importance of this process is emphasized; the academic, scientific, popular science, and artistic formats of purely literary biographies are outlined and the special spread of the biographical novel (a type of artistic biography) and creative biography (a popular historical-literary mix) is indicated; the term «creative biography» is used with a scientific and universal meaning that is remarkable for today. It has been noted that Poltava Kotlyarevskiana, as well as regional writer biographies in general, is currently actively developing; its creators – mainly writers from the western region of Ukraine – time biographical novels and historical-publicist essays to the jubilee dates of outstanding writers, rethink and often interpret freely their biographies, causing public resonance and discussions.P. Kralyuk and V. Dobryanskyi in their works dedicated to I. Kotlyarevsky subtly depict and interpret in an original way, ideologically actualize in an anti-colonial and civic-patriotic way the image and achievements of the «father» of Ukrainian literature, emphasize his psychoworld, the alleged splitting of the spirit, but integral soul, interpreted as a national cultural code that clearly resonates in the tragic present.

The Student-Athlete Scholarship Agreement in the Transfer Portal Era: An Examination of Cultural Codes of Silence

The Student-Athlete Scholarship Agreement in the Transfer Portal Era: An Examination of Cultural Codes of Silence

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE GLOBAL ETHNO-POLITICAL SPACE

The modern world is faced with global instability, adaptation to which has become a motive for the transition to a new model of civilizational development. The key point of this model is the preservation of the entire cultural diversity of the world through a real mutually equal dialogue of cultures, taking into account the ethno-cultural diversity and national characteristics of peoples. The collapse of the USSR gave rise to a “fever of ethnocracy”, the desire of the new government to oust all representatives of foreign-speaking ethnic groups from the country at any cost, especially from the administration, education, ideology and spiritual life, the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, even regardless of their level of competence. The ongoing processes of systemic transformation were accompanied by a political, economic social and cultural crisis, which required national-state self-determination. It was necessary to quickly decide on filling the specific content of national sovereignty, decide on the Basic Law, deal with the “blank spots” of Belarusian history, decide what the essence of the Belarusian national idea, Belarusian identity is, how to live on, with whom to be friends, what model of development to follow. In the context of such dynamic changes and global challenges, finding an opportunity to protect traditional cultural values means protecting the national interests of your country. National identity is instilled and fixed in the cultural code of a citizen of a country that he wants to be proud of and accepts as his only homeland. People are led into the future by ideals associated with the dream of a fair society with ensuring stability and the hope of returning to national traditions. The Republic of Belarus is located in the border zone between two civilizational models of development, Western and Russian. Belarus received from each of them some features, which together formed a kind of cultural and historical unity, at the same time similar and unlike these civilizations. The rooting of the Belarusian statehood is characterized by the fact that the "European" component of the Belarusian identity is strengthened in comparison with its "Soviet" part. The formation of the national and civic consciousness of young people is quite contradictory and ambiguous. This is largely due to a certain deprivation of youth of "historical memory", the presence of "blank spots" in the history of the post-Soviet countries, and the inconsistency of the formation of a new statehood. The claims of any culture to the exclusive universal significance are counterproductive in this situation. Modern globalism is dangerous because it tries to instill in the consciousness the idea of the universal significance of only European culture.

Pelevin’s Intertext in the Mirror of the Reader’s Reception

The article presents a study of the readership ability to unravel the intertextual code of V. Pelevin’s late novel work. A sociological method was used – a questionnaire, which made it possible to determine the degree of recognition of reminiscences in the works of V. Pelevin. Intertextual and structural types of analysis are also used in order to identify traces of someone else’s word in a postmodern text and to indicate its connection with the plot, spatial and temporal organization of the text, composition or characterization of characters. The subject is the intertexteme in the novel work of V. Pelevin. It is revealed that the primary sources of Pelevin’s studies are recognizable, since the postmodernist refers to literary, cultural, musical cliches, archetypes and iconic quotations. Pelevin’s text is intertextually heterogeneous and has a wide network of borrowings, which indirectly indicates a focus on a wide range of readers: solving the intertexteme and discovering the original source directly depends on the cultural background of the recipient. The article proves that the presented text passages are precisely intertexts, that is, conscious authorial borrowings, and not random coincidences and intuitive embodiment of the national cultural code. Pelevin uses techniques of editing and syncretism, referring simultaneously to a variety of primary sources, combining high and low, thereby creating a polycythe. Intertext, performing a sense-forming function, not only allows you to give a concise characterization of a character, chronotope or situation, but also acts as a semantic duplicate of the plot and narrative vector. Numerous references determine the development of the author’s narrative, giving an additional clue about further events to the reader.

Unwanted Neighbours, Unwanted Memory. Slovak–Roma Relations in Marek Vadas’s Six Strangers

In contemporary Slovakia, the Roma population are often seen as unwanted neighbours – a marginalised community, which experiences discrimination in various spheres of life. Anti-Romani sentiment, which constitutes the basis of negative attitudes to- ward the Roma minority, is hardly a new phenomenon; its manifestations, including specific acts of violence, can be found in the past. One of the examples of this kind of violence – the bloody pogrom in Pobedim carried out against the Romani populace by their Slovak neighbours in 1928 – offer a starting point for Marek Vadas’s Six Strangers (Šesť cudzincov, 2021). The historic site of the massacre, which is not commemorated in any form, has be- come a non-site of memory, while the tragic events have been pushed out of Slovak historical consciousness. Vadas’s prose is an attempt to bring them back to the collective conscious- ness and raise a number of important questions concerning the operation of cultural codes that permit and justify violence, the position and responsibility of the bystanders, as well as silence as a form of complicity in acts of aggression. In addition, it introduces a contemporary perspective, pointing to the persistence of mechanisms of discrimination, stigmatisation and exclusion of the Others, understood in many different ways, from the community.

Komunikacja w kulturze japońskiego kolektywizmu – wybrane koncepty

Japan is one of the most ethnically homogeneous countries in the world. Although there is an indigenous minority Ainu ethnic group from Hokkaido Prefecture and indigeneous inhabitants of the Riukiu (Okinawa) archipelago, the Japanese communally share the core values that form the core of their sense of cultural and national identity. Hall and Hofstede’s concepts provide a reference point for the present reflections on specific aspects of the Japanese cultural code, encompassing the sociological and psychological concepts of uchi-soto, honne-tatemae, and wa. Awareness of the role the Japanese attribute to social harmony helps sensitise the unique communicative culture of the Japanese and, under certain circumstances, to break down cultural barriers. Internalising this attitude can help a non- Japanese demonstrate proper social etiquette and maintain communicative harmony. My own experience of experiencing cultural difference in Japan from the perspective of a woman, a European, and a Polish researcher, provided a direct impetus to analyse the underlying cultural concepts that underlie Japanese communicative culture, as well as the perception of the dichotomy of Self versus the Other.

ХХ ғасырдың 20-30 жылдарындағы визуалды деректеріндегі қазақ отбасы құқығындағы «кеңестік» мәдени кодының қалыптасуының көрінісі

The article is devoted to the history of Kazakh family law in the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century. To be more specific, we will talk about the impact of the first decisions of the Soviet government on the institution of the family in the transitional period of Kazakh history. The abolition of laws governing family relations in Kazakh society before the arrival of the Bolsheviks. The influence of Soviet laws governing the institution of the family on family members. The family is the catalyst for change in a woman's life. The disappearance of polygamous families. The emancipation of a woman. New phenomena in the life of a woman who has received "freedom". New tasks and services outside the household. Differences in the life of a city dweller and a woman from the village. During the article, the presentation of the above problems by visual sources was analyzed. Based on the visual sources considered during the study, an analysis of the elements of tradition and modernism of the Kazakh family at the indicated time was carried out, the dynamics of changes, the mutual unity of the family, the relationship between members, the gender aspect, the propensity to film family issues, and culture were determined. On the basis of visual data, a step was taken towards defining the Soviet cultural code through a description of the material nature surrounding the family. At the beginning of the 20th century, a step was taken towards determining the representation of the historical and political situation in Kazakhstan and their influence on the concept of the family in visual data. In preparing the article, we tried to show the history of Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 20th century through the history of the family, based on a visual representation of the family, through the essence of family life, the main unit of society. In the process of working with visual data on family history, regional, local research methods were used.

СОМАТИЗМЫ В ЯЗЫКОВОМ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИИ МИРА (на материале русского и чувашского языков)

The authors analyze in a comparative way Russian and Chuvash words and phraseological units that make up the lexical category “somatisms” in the Russian and Chuvash linguistic world view. Within the framework of this lexical category, the somatisms “head”, “heart”, “arm”, “shoulder”, “elbow”, “finger”, “nail”, “eyes”, “nose”, “ears”, “tongue”, “lip”, “tooth”, “neck”, “back of the head”, “back”, “guts”, “liver”, “leg” are considered. The study is carried out on the material of lexicographic and folklore sources. The lexemes that make up the lexical category “somatisms” are for the first time comprehensively analyzed in a comparative aspect in the context of national cultural traditions as elements of the cultural code of an ethnic group. In the course of the research, we used such methods as dictionary definition analysis, distributive analysis, cluster analysis, conceptual analysis, and the comparative method. Comparative study of lexical semantics of somaticisms in the Russian and Chuvash languages reveals the following main types of relations: equivalence, intersection, divergence and lacunarity. Of the four identified types of semantic relations, equivalence and intersection prevail. The results of the undertaken analysis are intended to contribute to the further study of the national and cultural features of the linguistic modeling of the world.

The artisanal turn as another search for the “lost time” (Proust) by Ukrainian intellectuals and the plane of their representation

In the proposed study, the so-called “artisanal turn” is comprehended in the context of the metamodern cultural and philosophical paradigm, the peculiarities of the metamodern situation in philosophy and art. Invoking arguments of domestic authors who study metamodern ideas in domestic scientific thought, their influence on the state of modern culture and art, it is proved that reflections on the peculiarities of cultural and artistic life go beyond postmodernism and require addressing the situation of metamodernity. The overlap in traditional, postmodern and metamodern cultural codes testifies in favor of metamodernity as a cultural stage of the development of society and a philosophical trend reflected by cultural metamodernity in connection with the “artisanal turn” in art. Because this turn is a new look at people, culture, new avant-garde aesthetics, original artistic styles. The metamodern artistic paradigm is a new modality of the transdeductive relationship of people to things and transindividual relationships between people, and a cosmic artisan is a relational subjectivity. Art “returns” to the artisanal age of the sixteenth century Middle Ages, which leads to the deceptive illusion of craftsmanship as a sphere of realization of personal authenticity, both from the point of view of theory and artistic practice, but in this there is more of a modern alchemical minimalism, analogous to the mode of activity of the cosmic artisan described by Deleuze and Guattari with its inherent manneristic virtuosity which was truly new. The discussion of the issue of the “metaphysics of the artisanal turn”, the return of craftsmanship and mannerism in modern crafts helps artists clarify their place in culture and assert their professional authenticity through created artistic values, and for philosophers the concept of the “artisanal turn” illuminates its main meaning and specific meanings, subjective and objective parameters, a logical and emotional component of a fundamentally new aesthetics of beauty, which was initiated by the surrealism of the 20th century.

Researching Traditional Festivals from a Structural – Functional Theoretical Approach (In the Case of Nguyen Trung Truc Festival in Rach Gia City, Kien Giang Province)

This article explores the formation, development, and transformation of traditional community festivals through a structural-functional theoretical approach, focusing on the case study of the Nguyen Trung Truc festival in the Kien Giang community. Utilizing a cultural impact assessment framework, it examines various ethnic cultural aspects such as methods of using the natural environment for mutual well-being, practices of worship, creativity, and community togetherness. It also looks into the organization of life based on cohesion through cultural institutions and beliefs, as well as methods of expressing community cultural values. This comprehensive approach aims to understand the traditions and traditional practices of the Nguyen Trung Truc festival and the real life of the Kien Giang community from multiple dimensions. Through the article, the author proposes that local authorities promote the role of the community in organization and management. At the same time, develop a set of cultural codes of conduct for festivals to preserve and promote the value of festival heritage in the direction of sustainable development.

Janteloven in Denmark and Norway — To be or not to be?

The paper focuses on the concept of the Jante law (janteloven), formulated by A. Sandemose in 1933 in his novel En flyktning krysser sitt spor. Fortelling om en morders barndom (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. A story about a murderer’s childhood), which later became an element of the cultural code of Denmark and Norway. In this study we follow C. Levisen in his distinguishing between the “literary Jante law”, described by A. Sandemose in his novel, and the “linguistic” Jante law, which is a collocation in the Danish and Norwegian languages. This lexicalization of the concept has been brought about by the specific Scandinavian mentality, conditioned by a number of reasons (the agrarian Scandinavian culture, the Lutheran ethos). In the modern Danish and Norwegian languages the concept of janteloven is negative and is used in specific types of discourse (sports, popular culture, business, politics, psychology, schooling, immigration problems, feminism). Besides, there are numerous reformulated Jante laws (den positive jantelov, den omvendte jantelov, antijantelov, jenteloven, Danskerloven), which proves the precedence of the notion in the Danish and Norwegian cultures. The dominating American individualistic culture influences the development of a new system of values (ambition, self-concern, pushiness are no longer viewed as negative qualities), which results in a conflict between the traditional and the new in the Danish and Norwegian cultures: the Jante law comes into conflict with the so-called achievement culture (præstationskulturen). As a social construct and a secret regulator of public relations the janteloven has found its place between the number of other concepts (hygge, trivsel and so on), yet the janteloven has been specifically reflected in political practices, both in its formal expression (development of various “canons”) and in the methods of countering the imposition of certain phenomena on the part of government authorities.

Лексические средства отражения русского менталитета в текстах учебников по русскому языку как иностранному

The paper deals with the issue of representing the Russian mentality in the texts of Russian as a foreign language`s textbooks. When teaching Russian, through the language foreigners learn about the historically determined cultural codes of the people, the peculiarities of the national character and speech behaviour of Russian people. As a result of the study, the authors summarized the main features of the Russian mentality presented in 25 scientific works, analyzed the texts of 50 manuals on Russian as a foreign language, determined the means of reflecting the Russian mentality, and indicated the national features broadcast in educational texts. As the analysis showed, the texts of the Russian as a foreign language present the following features of the Russian mentality: hard work, laziness / passivity, caution in conducting business, ability to contemplate, love of freedom and fatalism, maximalism in expressing feelings and emotions, sociability, approval of cognitive activity, value of relationships. These qualities are translated through stable expressions of a metaphorical nature, stable expressions with nationally significant lexemes: longing, fate, soul, will; lexical and grammatical techniques (antithesis, anaphora, deixis, predicates, nominatives). As a basic method, a method of complex linguistic description was used, including methods of generalization, interpretation and classification of language facts. The results obtained during the analysis may be used in the development of new textbooks on Russian as a foreign language, more specifically aimed at developing the socio-cultural competence of students.

Культурный код Великого Новгорода: современность исторического города. Экспертное интервью

The expert interview is devoted to the analysis of the cultural code of Veliky Novgorod and to the architectural techniques, which represent it in the urban environment. The expert considers the general concept of cultural code and examines the modern situation of Veliky Novgorod, where only a small part of authentic objects has been preserved, as most of the structures were destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. Also, the expert evaluates various city objects and projects in terms of combination of Novgorod architectural motifs and modern solutions in them, and emphasizes that the design code, which has been introduced in Veliky Novgorod since 2024, is very poorly connected with the cultural identity of the city. The key thesis of the interview is that all urban objects that are located outside the historic part of the city (outside the berm boundaries) should be resolved in a modern architectural language. In addition, the creation of new projects in contrast with the existing urban environment is described as one of the possible and productive strategies for working in the historical area of the city. In this way, contemporary architects and urban planners can make their original, authorial contribution to the historical city and leave their mark on the urban texture.

Employee Psychological Resources as a Microfoundation for Organizational Knowledge Creation Across Cultures: A Yin–Yang Dialectical Systems View

In the new normal, characterized by intensifying digitalization and cross-cultural conflicts, organizational knowledge creation (KC) for the purpose of innovation necessitates better orchestration of stakeholders with culturally distinct beliefs and polychronic working patterns. This implies an imperative to address organizational KC from a microangle that can help decipher profound cultural codes in human mental programming. Thus, this research departs from a Yin–Yang dialectical system view that can interpret cross-cultural cognitive paradoxes and uses a microfoundational approach to explore how employees’ psychological capital (PsyCap) affects the KC capability and moderating effects of social capital-enhancing HR configuration on the above mechanisms. Using cross-border e-business models as the setting, the results of this article show an inverse U-shaped relationship between hope/optimism/self-efficacy and KC and a positive association between resilience and KC. Moreover, we found that social capital-enhancing HR configuration may intervene in these relationships. Our study adopts a Yin–Yang dialectical system framework to theoretically decode how different components of PsyCap act as a microfoundation to co-engineer KC processes with culturally diverse stakeholders, enriching the positive psychology and knowledge management literature. The results offer implications for orchestrating the intertwining streams of polychronic KC among multinationals in turbulent times.