LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW REPRESENTATION IN THE ETHNOLINGUISTIC TEXTS (on materials of Tambov Region)

We consider objective and conceptual representation sides of linguistic worldview in the ethnolinguistic texts. Language as the main channel of information transmission, as an informative sign equivalent of being, is intended primarily to transfer the meanings of culture, to describe its space. Verbalization of the cultural phenomena essence is inseparable from attempts to build a linguistic worldview, which comes from the ontological, so called “general” worldview. Language worldview accumulates spiritual and material components of a culture and is most clearly manifested in ethnolinguistic texts, the so called “cultural texts” - about rites, ritual acts, rituals, calendar holidays, etc. Rite, ritual, calendar holiday is a kind of action, the embodiment of the spiritual basis of existence is a sacred action of men on earth to translate spiritual ideas. On the example of the prayer for rain recorded by us in the Tambov Region, we analyze the semantic and semiotic components of the ritual text, show the material and spiritual components of the transfer of the meanings of this phenomenon of culture. We describe the action side of the prayer for rain from the lexical and semantic constants of the objective side of the language worldview. The analysis of the spiritual part of this rite is from the conceptual side of the language worldview.

culture, linguistic worldview, rite, action parts, ontology, ethnolinguistic texts, Tambov Region, prayer