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WHAT IS A/THE ‘LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD’?

Summary/Abstract: The concept of the linguistic picture of the world still remains largely undefined. To provide a satisfactory definition, it is necessary to specify its subject, the relationship between the representation of the reality present in the picture to the reality itself, as well as the ontological status of the linguistic world model. It is also crucial to specify the components which the linguistic picture of the world comprises: pictures of objects (i. e. their features and modes of existence), general ways of organization (categories, type of rationality), the ’naive’ knowledge. The picture thus created is heterogenic, multi-layer and multi-aspectual. it, can be reconstructed on the basis of variously conventionalized linguistic facts and, additionally, cultural data. Out of many possible approaches to interpreting these data, cognitive methodology appears to be the most useful.

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