The Concept of Conciliarity (Sobornost’) in the Russian Language Picture of the World

Abstract

The article examines the concept of CONCILIARITY as a “symbolic” deep linguistic concept of the Russian linguistic picture of the world, reflecting the national spiritual activity of the people. This concept is analyzed in the light of religious-theological, philosophical, sociological and culturological knowledge manifested in language and through language. The article examines the main ideas of conciliarity, which find confirmation, “imprint” in the language: the dissolution of I in the collective WE, which embodies the principle of “unity in plurality”; reduction, detachment of the subject of the utterance from the object of the utterance; consistency, cohesion, plasticity of the language and – as a consequence – the fluidity of Russian speech. These linguistic features are confirmed by facts in the field of morphology, syntax and phonetics.