“CONCEPTOSPHERE OF CULTURE” AS THE BASIC UNIT IN THE METALANGUAGE OF LINGUOCULTUROLOGY

“CONCEPTOSPHERE OF CULTURE” AS THE BASIC UNIT IN THE METALANGUAGE OF LINGUOCULTUROLOGY

Author:  Zykova I.V.

Affiliation:  Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract:  The paper dwells on a number of relevant issues concerning the term conceptoshpere, such as: what causes the emergence of this term, how it is used and understood in the works of Russian as well as foreign scholars and how it is defined and studied in such branch of linguistics as linguoculturology.  
The term conceptoshpere was introduced by Dmitriy Likhachev in the 1990s and since that time it has been widely used in various branches of linguistics. According to the research findings, the term conceptoshpere has close ties with two groups of terms which to a great extent influenced its emergence, first, such terms as noosphere, sense-sphere, logosphere and semiosphere; and second, such terms as the model of the world, the picture of the world and the image of the world (expounded in English by the current term worldview). Like its terminological predecessors, the term conceptoshpere is used in the framework of studying the specifics of cognitive processes of human beings, their world-cognition as a result of which a special (different from natural) environment of their existence is formed. Unlike its terminological predecessors, it is conceptualization itself and the language conceptualization in particular (as a culturally determined process) that are in focus in researches on conceptoshpere. 
The comparative analysis of the use of the term in question has shown that in foreign and Russian studies it is applied and defined differently. In modern English scientific discourse the term conceptual sphere is chiefly used in researches on philosophy and has the corresponding philosophical definitions. Its application in linguistics is less frequent. On the contrary, in Russian studies conceptoshpere is primarily the term of linguistics widely used in its various interdisciplinary fields in which three variants of the term conceptoshpere have been elaborated – the conceptoshpere of culture, the conceptoshpere of language, the conceptoshpere of personality. 
In linguoculturology it is the conceptoshpere of culture that has been adopted as the basic unit of its metalanguage. Such terminological preference has particular theoretical grounds and is determined by the main objectives of linguoculturology, i.e. to explore how language is created under the influence of culture, how cultural information is encoded in language signs and can be activated in communication processes.

Keywords:  conceptoshpere, culture, language, personality, linguoculturology, metalanguage

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