UNDERSTANDING OF THE TERMS 'WORLDVIEW' AND 'WORLD MODEL' IN RUSSIAN SEMIOTICS AND LINGUISTICS Cover Image

Rozumienie terminu obraz świata i model świata w semiotyce i lingwistyce rosyjskiej
UNDERSTANDING OF THE TERMS 'WORLDVIEW' AND 'WORLD MODEL' IN RUSSIAN SEMIOTICS AND LINGUISTICS

Author(s): Aleksej V. Judin
Contributor(s): Irina Lappo (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW; POINTS OF VIEW; SYMBOLIC CONCEPTS; WORLD MODEL

Summary/Abstract: The article surveys various conceptions of the understanding of the terms 'worldview'/'world model' and 'linguistic worldview' in the Russian linguistics and philosophy of the last three decades. A discussion is offered of the definitions proposed by and points of view of the following authors: Vladimir N. Toporov, Tatyana V. Tsivyan, Yurii D. Apresyan, Boris A. Serebrennikov, Serafima E. Nikitina and others. (General, conceptual, linguistic) worldview/world model is understood as a picture, interpretation, or reflection of the ideas about the world, as a complex of the knowledge about it and a system of symbolic concepts, by means of which we know and understand the world. It is a reflection of the process of coming to the knowledge of reality (manifested, among others, in the categories which people construct). It is a way in which the world is reflected. Finally, it is the totality of judgments about the world.

  • Issue Year: 16/2004
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 315-323
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish