The notion of the world picture and its types

THE NOTION OF THE WORLD PICTURE AND ITS TYPES

Munavvarjonova Tursunoy

Group: 5

PLAN:

• Introduction

2. Conceptual World Picture

- Sources of Conceptual World Picture

- Types of Conceptual World Picture

- Linguistic World Picture and its functions

- Relationship and Differences between Conceptual and

Linguistic World Picture

3. Conclusion

4. Activity

5. Reference list

INTRODUCTION

• Conceptual world picture – a global image of the world and its essential features reflected in the individual’s mind as a result of his spiritual activity. (D.U. Ashurova, M.R. Galiyeva) Conceptual world picture, its connection with the processes of cognition, conceptualization and categorization of the world ensures its relevance to cultural linguistics.

• The term “ world picture” was first introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein

in his work “Logical and philosophical trilogy”. Moreover, since the
60th of the 20th century, this term has been in the spotlight of many
scholars. Such as: L Weisberger, W. Humboldt, Попова, Стернин,
Маслова, Колшанский and Пименова.

THE SOURCES OF THE CONCEPTUAL WORLD PICTURE (V. V. MORKOVKIN)

Ways of gaining knowledge
Inborn knowledge
Ex: Eating, crying and sleeping of infants
Practical activity (interaction of man with nature) Ex: gardening, Teaching
Texts (Lifelong)
Ex: Literature books, poems, etc.
Process of thinking
Ex: Dreams, feelings
Mother tongue (Cognitive Inheritance) Ex: concepts, intellectual skills that are learning through their mother tongue. Greeting, respectfulness

TYPES OF CONCEPTUAL WORLD PICTURE

Scientific

• Scientific achievements
• Knowledge of different properties
• Laws of existence

Native

• Presuppositions Ex: He has only a fault. (He has not any other fault)
• Assumptions. Ex: House prices would remain steady
• Stereotypes Ex: Children – toys, playing, asking question.
• Images Ex: Animal – dog, fruit - apple
• Symbols Ex: a heart – love, water - life

Main types
General. Ex:
Man, universe, climate
Special scientific.
Ex: Newton’s laws
Gravitation
Natural sciences.
Ex: biological concepts
like Health, disease

TYPES OF CONCEPTUAL WORLD PICTURE

! According to many scholars, these types of world picture can be investigated within the linguistic world picture as its variants.

• Archaic and civilized
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous
• Global and local (V. I. Postovalova)

• Universal and ethical
• National and socially or territorially limited
• Universal and individual
• Religious and secular
• Native and scientific (N. F. Alifirenko, E. S. Kubryakova, Yu. S. Stepanov, V. N. Telia, V. A. Maslova, D. U. Ashurova, M. R. Galiyeva, etc)
• The author’s individual (G. G. Molchanova, D. U. Ashurova)

LINGUISTIC WORLD PICTURE

• Knowledge and experience imprinted in lexicon, phraseology, grammar;
• Verbal explanation of the conceptual world picture;
• A means of transferring information about the world, people and relations.
• The linguistic world picture is an important part of an overall conceptual model of the world in the human mind (Кубряковаб 1988, с 169)
• “Linguistic world representation”, “linguistic model of the world” – the knowledge represented in the linguistic world picture

MAIN FUNCTIONS OF LINGUISTIC WORLD PICTURE

INTERPRETATIVE
REGULATIVE
Life, death, the sun, the moon
Mentality, behavior features

FUNCTIONS OF LINGUISTIC WORLD PICTURE

Additional functions
Nominative
Identifying
Sociocultural

Conceptual world picture Linguistic world picture

Broader and richer
Stable
More liable to changes. Such as: historical events, social systems.
More conservative and even archaic attitudes. Such as: Bible expressions: alpha and omega, wash one’s hands
Important part of overall conceptual model
RELATIONSHIP AND DIFFERENCES

CONCLUSION

• Conceptual world picture is a knowledge about the real world and its features formed in people’s mind as a result of cognitive activity
• There are various sources that generate conceptual world picture like inborn knowledge, Practical activity, texts, thinking, Mother tongue and they serve as a means of gathering knowledge.
• Scientific and National features recognized as the main types of Conceptual world picture are based on different evidences. As well as it is divided into many other types by scientists
• Linguistic world picture is the expression of using Language and it has several functions.
• In spite of various differences, Linguistic world picture is an important part of overall Conceptual world picture.

REFERENCE LIST

• D.U. Ashurova, M.R, Galiyeva. Cultural linguistics – Tashkent 2019
• V. A. Maslova Cultural linguistics. – 2001

Internet sources:

• www.dreamstime.com
• www.hozir.org
• www.Britannica.com