ЯЗЫКОВОЕ И ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНОЕ СВОЕОБРАЗИЕ В КРИВОМ ЗЕРКАЛЕ ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРОЛОГИИ
LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL PECULIARITY IN A CROOKED MIRROR OF CULTURAL LINGUISTICS

Summary/Abstract: Cultural linguistics as a modern branch of the science of language exerts a detrimental effect on linguistic research, particularly in methodology. It is justly criticized for deficiency of logic, intuitive knowledge and subjectivity. The empirical method proves that linguistic structures typical of a particular language are not to be identified with a peculiar world view. Language has no creative potential to spawn a world of its own, so the phrase “linguistic mentality” is nothing but a metaphor. There is no asserting parallel relationship between thought and language, nor the dependence of ethnic mentality on a certain language type. Variation in world views prevails over language structures, inasmuch as a variety of ways to express ideas exceeds the number of language types.

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