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Scientist L. Boroditsky (2011) claims that “language has a special influence on the cognition of the world around us”.




5Topic: Linguoculturemes as a basic concept of linguocultural studies

Linguocultureme is
is a complex, interlevel language unit, a dialectical unit of both linguistic and extralinguistic factors, the correlation between the form of a verbal sign, its semantic content and cultural sense (Campbell, 2009).


linguoculturemes can be represented by the whole text, both micro-and macrotexts.

The sources of linguoculturemes can be different in every culture, for example, realia, geographical position, descriptive text, names of famous people, description of place, myths, legends, climate, images, beliefs, food, clothes customs and traditions.

Linguocultureme can also be expressed by a paragraph

The main sources of linguoculturemes are as follows:
Phenomena and realias of everyday life;
Images and comparisons;
Speech etiquette

Linguoculturemes can be expressed by various language forms including words, word combinations, text fragments, phraseological units, stylistic devices, syntactical structures and even the whole text.

linguoculturemes expressed by a wordare gentleman, privacy, home, lady, lord due to its cultural connotations (cf. choykhona in Uzbek, пельменная in Russian).

Russian scholar V. Vorobyov suggested the term “linguoculturemes” to denote culture relevant language units