Аналіз впливу лінгвокультури на ментальну ідентичність етносів
Analysis of the Influence of Linguaculture on Mental Identity of Ethnos

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to define the term mental identity, to find out the difference between the concepts of mentality and mentality by tracing their etymology, as well as to examine the essence of the influence of linguistic and cultural factors on the formation of mental identity. The methodology is based on an anthropocentric approach to the problem of studying the dialectic mutual influence between language, thinking and mental self-identification of a person within certain ethnolinguistic communities. Scientific novelty lies in the definition of mentality as a subjective, implicit, often non-reflective worldview-cognitive attitude of a person determined by the linguistic and cultural background, which sometimes has a conscious, but most often the spontaneous character of manifestation, in particular through stereotypical assessments and behavioral models, latent impulses and automatisms. Conclusions. Mental identity is built by identifying oneself with the mentality of a certain ethnolinguistic community. Its construction and determination are carried out by conscious or subconscious collective creative efforts of many generations during the centuries-old historical and cultural development under the direct influence of the linguistic and cultural factors of this ethnolinguistic community.

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