Language Worldview Research Articles

ANI-ANISHINAABEWAADIZING (Becoming Indigenous): Healing from Sustained Cultural Genocide and Linguicide through Ojibwe Language World View

Intergenerational transmission of culture and language across Native American communities in the United States has been obstructed by more than 520 years of sustained cultural genocide and attempts of linguicide which, in turn, inflicted intergenerational trauma that still impacts Native American communities today. This article intentionally bridges understandings of language revitalization efforts in a North American Ojibwe community employing Indigenous research methods. The community efforts are reflected upon by an Ojibwe Elder and longtime language teacher, which is then responded to by two colleagues and friends of the Elder who come from a Western perspective. This “two-eyed” approach illustrates the importance of Indigenization in education and communities as a process of truth, reconciliation, and healing after genocide. Once the historical context is given, the Elder's reflections of language revitalization are understood through mapping the Medicine Wheel and as having mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical impacts. Further, the work of the community to reclaim and recenter the schools and community to the Ojibwe worldview is viewed as weaving together the Seven Grandfather Teachings of Love, Respect, Honesty, Truth, Wisdom, Humility, and Bravery as acts of resistance to continued actions of the dominant US culture that degrade and dishonor Native American nations and communities.

Концептуальная оппозиция «правда – ложь» в чувашской и русской языковых картинах мира

The purpose of the study is to identify the linguistic and cultural features of the representation of the concepts of TRUTH and LIE in the Russian and Chuvash language worldviews. The article examines the structural and semantic features of the concepts as complex mental formations, identifies their intercultural correspondences, analyzes conceptual, figurative and moral-aesthetic components reflecting important attitudes of the life philosophy of the Russian and Chuvash peoples. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that it for the first time presents a description of the concepts of TRUTH and LIE based on the material of Russian and Chuvash proverbial expressions in a comparative way, examines the linguistic and cultural aspects of their linguistic implementation, identifies intercultural correspondences and differences that determine the linguistic mentality of the Chuvash people. As a result of the study, it was found that the cognitive categories "truth" and "lie" are the basic elements of the cultural code of nations. They form a single semantic paradigm in the space of the Russian and Chuvash worldviews and act as units of a functional and pragmatic level. The emotional and evaluative interpretation of the considered components is determined by life or behavioral situations and receives various metaphorical content within the framework of the studied linguistic cultures.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПОНЯТИЯ В НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА КАЗАХОВ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПОЭЗИИ ЖЫРАУ)

The study of texts by Kazakh zhyrau with the aim of identifying the peculiarities of conceptualizing universals of objective reality within the framework of Kazakh culture undoubtedly presents a significant interest for linguacultural researchers and ethnolinguists. The analysis of such material can provide valuable information about the structure and semantic content of nationally specific concepts. The study proves the interrelation of the concepts considered in the article, expands the idea of the whole conceptual system of Kazakh literature. The authors examined a series of universal concepts reflected in the poetic works of zhyraus, transformed by the worldview and understanding of the world of the Kazakh people, and became foundational elements of the national conceptual sphere. The research employed methods such as descriptive analysis, statistical analysis to identify the frequency of usage of certain words, and conceptual analysis to extract cognitive models. The results obtained during the analysis serve as a key to unlocking the culture, history, and mentality of the Kazakh ethnic group. The aim of the article is to study conceptual notions in the national language worldview of Kazakhs, related to representations of life and death, homeland, family, and other significant concepts in Kazakh linguaculture. The material for the study consisted of texts of zhyraus` poetry, as well as Kazakh proverbs and sayings. The considered problem is relevant in terms of studying the language of Kazakh poetry as a means of comprehending ethnic mentality

Adjectival phraseological units in representing national worldview

The national identity of the language is reflected in its phraseological fund. The identification of the actual national features of the semantics of phraseological units is possible only on the basis of a comparison ofstable turns ofdifferent languages. To cany out a comparative analysis of phraseological units containing components denoting a value, it is necessary to establish the national features of the language worldview and trace the process of linguistic conceptualization of the value. Each language has its own method of conceptualizing reality, which has its own specific and universal features. A comparative cultural linguistics study of the fund of the English and Karakalpak languages makes it possible to determine the common and national in matters of perception of magnitude by representatives of the two peoples.

Phraseological units with the semantics of "human character" in Russian and Chinese

The object of this research is the phraseological field with the semantics of "human character" as a fragment of the linguistic picture reflecting the peculiarities of perception of the world by native speakers of Russian and Chinese languages. The subject of the study is national peculiarities and common features of cultural components of the meaning of phraseological units about human character in the Russian and Chinese languages. In the first part of the article, the author gives a brief description of the theoretical understanding of phraseology as a phenomenon of Russian and Chinese linguistics, draws parallels between the concepts of phraseological unit and chengyu, comparing the key characteristics of the two terms and specifying the subject of research. Having defined the theoretical boundaries of the concept of phraseology, the author of the article systematizes the research material in accordance with the semantic features. The second part of the study is devoted to the comparative linguistic, cultural and semantic analysis of phraseological units expressing the "character of a person" in Russian and Chinese. Methods of classification, lexico-semantic analysis, linguistic and cultural analysis, comparison, generalization are used. The sample of the study includes 400 phraseological units about the character of a person (200 Russian and 200 Chinese), which were studied using quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The research contributes to the study of linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the perception of human character by representatives of Russian and Chinese cultures. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the application of comparative lexico-semantic and linguistic-cultural analysis to phraseological units with the meaning of "human character". Russian and Chinese studies of the quantitative correlation of phraseological and semantic groups in the phraseological field with the semantics of "human character" in Russian and Chinese, as well as the identification of cultural and historical features and patterns in the perception of human character traits in the Russian and Chinese language worldviews, revealed the presence of a universal and specific perception of human character. All this made it possible to establish a connection between different historical and social development, the influence of different religious and philosophical teachings in Russia and China, and the perception of human character reflected in the corresponding fragment of the phraseological field.

Новый взгляд на проблему заимствований: языковая фрустрация vs маркетинговые стратегии

The article reveals linguocognitive mechanisms as well as social reasons for active functioning of new borrowings in the modern public discourse and in commercial enterprises naming. The material for the analysis is a sample of the most frequent lexis in the micro synchrony that are not yet part of the host language lexicon, and comprises over one hundred and fifty lexical units, selected from the national corpus of the Russian language, public internet discourse, the author's collection of brand names (and names of businesses), radio and television programs. As a result of a comprehensive analysis, two main isomorphic types of borrowing functioning are identified. They are supposed to be motivated by multi-level linguistic, social, and pragmatic factors. Hence, the evidence of linguomental transformations of meaning is linked to the condition of linguistic frustration. This justifies considering it as a state of linguistic personality (at both the first and second levels, according to Yu.N. Karaulov), wherein the constraints of linguistic norms are lifted, and foreign-language word usage is motivated in specific speech act. A tendency of duplicate (native and foreign) naming in explicitly nominative and implicitly subjective-pragmatic functions has been established. It is suggested that the synergy of these functions conveys the speaker's subjective intentions and can be regarded as a marketing strategy of self-positioning in the act of foreign-language use in the nomination process, or as a commercial move, emphasizing the value of the product / service (i.e., commercialization of the nominative unit). Thus, the discourse becomes either status-oriented or conative. The linguistic phenomena under consideration introduce changes into the national concept sphere, as they contain features of a different language world view.

Concept of the Moon in the Yakut Language World View

The article defines the concept of the moon in the traditional Yakut world view at the levels of language, myth and ritual. It is common knowledge that the Yakuts are the northernmost Turks who have largely preserved the mental representations of the Southern Siberia Turks’ ethnocultural heritage. National world view features in the nominations of the concept moon related to space and time cultural paradigm, representing the mythopoetic picture of the world, have been established. The archaic features of this concept, set phrases, and oral folk art have been considered. The relevance of this research lies in the conceptualization of the verbal culture of the Sakha people. The purpose of the article is to identify linguistic and cultural features of the concept moon in the Yakut language world view. The article uses a cognitive approach, contextual and syntagmatic analysis of word connection as well as the method of conceptual analysis. The cosmological representation of the Universe among the Yakuts is given through the archaic metaphor of a leather vessel with numerical and spatial symbols. The moon is projected in conjunction with the sun as a trace of an early form of deity worship. It has an ambivalent function that affects the fate that generates birth/death. In connection with this understanding, various verbal and non-verbal ritual actions have arisen. The space and time paradigm in the oral tradition has given rise to various names for the calculus of time. In analyzing the nominative field of the concept moon, its universal and national components have been revealed. Among the lexical units that form the concept moon in the Sakha language, one can distinguish riddles that emphasize the roundness of its shape, symbolizing the cyclicity of life – the idea of eternal birth. It has such basic signs as large/pale/white/moving, the somatic code of which is manifested in the symbolic use of the eye. When comparing fairy tales, similar and distinctive motifs associated with the image of the girl on the moon have been revealed.

NOTIONAL COMPONENT OF THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE FOR THE CONCEPT «INTEGRITY»

The article deals with the interpretational analysis of the concept VIRTUE/INTEGRITY in Ukrainian and English languages which is caused by the current political, social and educational movement of Ukraine which, in its turn, seems impossible without understanding of universal conceptual dominants while Ukraine has been demonstrating its intention to be integrated into the global educational community. The importance of the study is promoted by the fact that virtue, in general, and academic integrity, in particular, as moral and ethical responsibility, are considered universal for Ukrainian language worldview. The analysis has revealed that this moral concept has been the object and subject of the theoretical studies in philisophy, ethics, theology, linguistic and cultural studies, cognitive linguistics. The aim of the article is to recognize the conceptual difference in comprehending the ethical category by the conceptual and verbal description of the logical and verbal conscience structure. The tasks presuppose semantic analysis and conceptual comparison of the concept structures in Ukrainian and English languages, which are performed by means of the analysis of Ukrainian and English lexicographical sources. The article describes the first stage of verbalizing analysis of this universal concept) the main characteristics of its verbal representations being honesty, purity, virtue and moral choice of a personality. Thus, the analysis has revealed the essential difference which is expressed in the English concept and is determined by understanding honesty as the obligatory integrity of the stable behaviour of the virtual person as a member of the community who perceives his/her responsibility.

Contrastive analysis of linguocultural connotations of zoonymic imagery in English, Ukrainian and Russian proverbs

The use of contrastive analysis as a linguistic research method is effective at all language levels, especially at lexico-semantic and lexico-phraseological levels. Zoonymic images fixed in the language are associated with national and cultural stereotypes, value standards, which testifies to the individuality of the figurative thinking of speakers of the language, as well as to differences and similarities of language worldview. The article presents a contrastive analysis of the linguocultural connotations of zoonymic images in English, Ukrainian, and Russian proverbs. In the analyzed languages, the imagery of the proverb with a zoonymic component is formed by two main ways: as the figurative meaning of the whole sentence with the direct meaning of its component parts; as the figurative meaning of the parts of the sentence with the figurative meaning of the whole sentence. The following types of formal similarities and differences in English, Ukrainian, and Russian proverbs with a zoonymic image are identified: full logical and figurative similarity; logical and figurative similarity at the level of the whole statement and differences at the level of words; identity of logical meaning and complete difference in imagery; similarity of imagery and differences of logical meanings. Similarities and differences in zoonymic imagery are explained by a number of reasons: differences in folklore imagery system; differences in the national and cultural systems, which are reflected in proverbs; borrowing images from well-known religious or literary texts; typological and areal similarities and differences of the figurative systems. In various languages, the symbolic meaning of zoonyms is based on the importance of a certain animal, bird or insect in economic activity, in social and everyday life, in the mythological and religious worldview of the people. Specific examples (bull / ox; бик /віл; бык / вол) show that zoonymic images in different languages can completely coincide in their semantic meaning, be similar, or completely different. Zoonyms are formed according to mental patterns based on metaphorical transference and have evaluative and linguocultural connotations.

THE CONCEPTS OF «LEFT» AND «RIGHT» IN UKRAINIAN AND CHINESE FIXED PHRASES AND PROVERBS

The purpose of the article is to identify the cognitive bases of asymmetry in the use and perception of the concepts «left» and «right» // // 左 [zuǒ] and 右 [yòu] by Ukrainians and Chinese. These concepts function in the linguistic space of the world as one of the universal binary oppositions. This is most clearly expressed in constant word combinations and paremies. An attempt was made to determine the differences between the Ukrainian and Chinese language worldviews in situations where these concepts are present. Ukrainian and Chinese fixed word combinations and paremias with the semantically core words left and right // 左 and 右 were chosen as the object of study. The subject of the research is the identification of common and distinctive features in the perception of the Chinese and Ukrainians of the views and habits of using the concepts of «left» and «right» traditional in their national language worldviews. The procedures of semantic, connotative, phraseological, linguocultural, conceptual, cognitive, comparative and quantitative analysis, as well as the descriptive method, were used in the research process. The results of the research were the identification of selected Ukrainian and Chinese phraseological units that contain indicators of the concepts «left» and «right» // 左 [zuǒ] and 右 [yòu], their classification by discursive meaning, sphere of functioning, axiological characteristics, and a comparative analysis of the linguistic and cultural principles of use in the Ukrainian and Chinese languages was carried out. Conclusions are made regarding the asymmetry of the traditional perception and functioning of the conceptual meanings of left and right in compared languages

The Faith Concept in the Kyrgyz Language Worldview

The article is devoted to the description of the faith concept in the Kyrgyz language picture of the world, to the definition of ways of its verbalization in the cognitive space and its linguistic reflection. The problem of faith is a deep and serious topic, which is the subject of many works in theology and philosophy. We will focus only on those points that are important for the purposes of this study. The purpose of the article is to identify and describe the concept of ishenim — faith in the Kyrgyz language worldview and to determine the ways of its verbalization in the cognitive space and its linguistic reflection. The issues of identifying the logical-cognitive and semantic features of the concept of faith, the ways of its verbalization in the human mind and in the language are devoted to many works in various fields of science: in philosophy, psychology, literary criticism, linguistics. On the material of the Kyrgyz language, this concept is considered for the first time from the linguocultural and semantic-cognitive points of view.

Models of Visual Perception in the Turkish Language Worldview

Models of Visual Perception in the Turkish Language Worldview

Models of Visual Perception in the Turkish Language Worldview

This article is devoted to the study of the mechanism of modeling visual perception in the Turkish language picture of the world. It should be noted that when modeling visual perception, a number of factors play a role, under the influence of which different models are formed. This explains the structure of a typical visual perception situation, which is presented as the basis of modeling.

27<sup>TH</sup> International Conference <i>Linguistics for All</i>

In the beginning of March the 27th annual scientific and practical conference took place in the Moscow State Pedagogical University in association with the Herzen State Pedagogical University and School No. 1561. This year the conference was devoted to the topic of Language and Person. As usual, the two-day conference was divided into two parts: one started with the opening of the Conference and reports made by university students, while in the second part the floor was given to school students who participated in nine sections. On the 2nd of March, participance of the conference were greeted by distinguished professors, such as academician A. V. Lubkov, rector of the Herzen University S. V. Tarasov, director of the Institute of Philology Ye. G. Chernysheva, and professor I. S. Uryupin. The conference was anchored by O. Ye. Drozdova and its jury included scholars of leading universities and schoolteachers. Dozens of university and school students from Russia and abroad took part in the Conference. They presented thirty reports on a variety of topics: language portrayal of people and characters of literature; language of different social groups; language worldview; linguistical influence on people; language as a professional tool, etc. More than a hundred participants joined discussion panels — person in language worldviews now and then; language portrayal of characters in literature; and the language of communication of teachers and students in social networks — hosted by Ye. B. Yakovenko, A. I. Dunev, G. D. Polyakova, respectively. Discussion panels were followed by a linguistic game. Participants of the conference were awarded diplomas. Discussion of reports, communication of students with jury members, famous philologists, answers to questions from conference participants create an atmosphere of creativity and make students want to continue searching for new knowledge, logical connections, and linguistic discoveries.

Transport and Means of Communication in Language Worldview of Vologda Peasant: Traditions and Innovations

The article is devoted to the study of records of dialect speech, verbalizing the ideas of rural residents of the Vologda region about the system of transport and means of communication. The object of analysis is the lexical set of names of vehicles and means of communication, as well as the corpus of texts. Informants differentiate roads in detail from the point of view of the possibilities of their use in summer or winter, for walking, skiing, wheeled, sledge, caterpillar, sled, etc. transportation. Many traditional beliefs and customs of dialect speakers are associated with the road. Informants living near navigable rivers and large lakes perceive movement by water as one of the ordinary components of the transport system, while those living far from water bodies treat water transport with caution and prejudice, emphasizing the danger of the water element. The most vivid impressions of dialect speakers about movement in space are associated with air transport. The narrative of this event is clothed in the genre form of a “story-plate”, which occupies an intermediate position between everyday and folklore non-fairy-tale prose. However, such stories, as a rule, tell about the first or only air flight in the life of the informant.

AXIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE STABLE WORD COMBINATIONS AND PROVERBS

Summary. The purpose of the article is to reveal the cultural connotation and axiological characteristics of the concepts "left" and "right", which make up one of the universal binary oppositions, in Russian and Chinese stable word combinations and paremias in order to determine the differences between the Russian and Chinese language worldviews in the cognitive zone of the presence of these concepts. The object of the research is Russian and Chinese phraseological units with the key words left and right. The subject of the study is the determination of common and distinctive features in the perception of traditional views and habits by Chinese and Russians regarding the use of the above-mentioned concepts in their national language worldviews. The procedures of semantic, connotative, phraseological, linguocultural, conceptual, cognitive, comparative and quantitative analysis, as well as the descriptive method, were used in the research process. The results of the study were the identification of 74 Russian and 62 Chinese phraseological units with different structures, containing indicators of the concepts "left" and "right". They are classified according to their discursive meaning, sphere of functioning, and axiological characteristics. A comparative analysis of the linguocultural principles of their use in the Russian and Chinese languages was carried out. Conclusions are made regarding the asymmetry of the traditional perception and functioning of the conceptual meanings of left and right in the compared languages.

Corpus analysis of the co-occurrence of the concept hygge

The notion that a language worldview is shaped by a system of key concepts as well as ideas and motifs linking them, which are expressed in the meaning of individual lexemes and phrases, has informed a number of studies of culturally specific words and even entire semantic fields. Comparison of different language worldviews has revealed many differences, which at first sight seem insignificant but may hinder successful communication. The concept of hygge occupies a special place in the Danish language worldview and has become somewhat of a Danish hallmark. Our study uses corpus data to analyse six co-occurrence patterns of words representing the concept hygge, which allows us to explicate the implicit meaning components of the lexemes in question and to identify the most frequent patterns. The material used was the Danish Gigaword Corpus (DAGW), which includes texts collected from the Internet. The corpus covers the Danish language in all its diversity: a variety of genres and types of texts are represented in the corpus (law, social media, subtitles, debates, conversation notes, encyclopaedia articles, fiction, news, etc.). The high frequency of the words representing the concept hygge in the corpus texts once again confirms the importance of this concept for Danish culture. The combinational properties of all the models studied show a striking uniformity: all collocations are characterized by positive connotations and can be categorized into a small set of thematic groups (place, time, atmosphere, hobbies, spending time together and communicating). The above co-occurrence analysis allows us to identify the following set of characteristics of the concept hygge: a feeling of peace, tranquillity and security, enjoyment and good mood that comes from being engaged in active pursuits, presence of close, familiar people, a familiar, wellknown place, a shared time together.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ PERSONALITY TRAITS: СТРУКТУРА И СРЕДСТВА ЯЗЫКОВОЙ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ

The paper deals with conceptual and language representation of the character of a person and aims to explore the content and structure of the conceptual domain PERSONALITY TRAITS through describing the system of categories and subcategories that constitute the domain and to identify the units that represent the categories in the English language and discourse. The research methods used include conceptual analysis, dictionary and thesaurus analysis, discourse analysis, comparative analysis and the analytico-descriptive method. The article defines the scope of the conceptual domain and shows that it contains a large number of categories and subcategories that can be grouped into 22 thematic classes representing various aspects of a person’s character and attitude to other people and entities. The categories are expressed in discourse by numerous lexemes (nouns and adjectives) and phrases. It is shown that some of the categories, most notably those pertaining to a person’s attitude to norms of civilized behaviour, have a much greater number of means of expression than others. The findings contribute to the studies of the English language worldview and comparative analysis of different language worldviews. The findings can also be used in the cognitive studies of lexemes, synonyms and translation.

КОНЦЕПТ DOSTLUK В ТУРЕЦКОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА

The article aims at studying the concept DOSTLUK (FRIENDSHIP) in the Turkish language world view. Being one of the basic ethical categories in human consciousness, this concept is verbalized through a variety of linguistic means and reflects the spiritual values of the ethnic group. The purpose of the study is to identify the cognitive features of the cultural concept DOSTLUK based on the assumption of its multi-layer structure including semantic, imagery and value constituents. The research material includes Turkish explanatory dictionaries, dictionaries of Turkish proverbs and sayings as well as the data from the Turkish National Corpus (TUD). The diversity of the problem under study determines the choice of various research methods: cognitive analysis of definitions, component analysis, contextual analysis, cognitive interpretation, framing techniques, etc. The semantic component of the concept DOSTLUK is represented as a frame including the subframes “Friendship as an Attitude/Relationship”, “Friendship as a Feeling/State”, “Subject(s) of Friendship”, “The Process of Friendship” and “The Value of Friendship”. The imagery component of the concept DOSTLUK is implemented with the help of metaphors (mainly artifact and natural). The value component of the concept is realized through various linguistic means containing evaluation, as well as the high frequency of use of the concept verbalizers that make up its nominative field. The author concludes that the concept DOSTLUK is a linguocultural ethical mental formation that models the situation and the state of friendship, with a pronounced value component.

THE CONCEPT 'QUARANTINE' IN RUSSIAN-, UKRAINIAN- AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE HUMOROUS WORLD VIEW

The Purpose of the Study The article is devoted to the analysis of cognitive conceptual features of the concept 'quarantine' in three humorous language world views: Russian, Ukrainian and English. The aim of the investigation is to reveal the peculiarities of conceptualization of the main cognitive features of the concept 'quarantine' on the material of the modern Internet folklore genres, such as memes, anecdotes, aphorisms, jokes. The Research Methodology. Semantic-cognitive method was used to characterize individual categories of the analyzed concept and quantitative method to present statistical data. The Scientific Novelty. The article presents the first cognitive analysis of the concept 'quarantine' on the material of the Internet folklore in three linguistic humorous language world views. The Conclusions. Comparison of cognitive features of the concept 'quarantine' in the studied world views has allowed to deduce general cognitive features of its conceptualization, which include: inability of parents to adapt quickly and easily to a new role of the home teacher; and producing dependence on household actions, in particular overeating.