ETHNOCULTURAL POTENTIAL OF THE MEANING OF WORDS (WREATH - CROWN)

Abstract

Some lexical units (primarily, specific units) reserve in itself a deep internal form, which can be revealed not only by using own linguistic techniques to examine the nature of words, but by reconstructing a variety of topics related to ethnohistory, ethnopsychology etnoculture of its speaker. The speaker learns the language, which is a repository of some nation experience and, through it, to some extent the all mankind's experience in the perception of the world. Thus, native speakers inherit the semantic richness of the language, and not only in its active manifestation, but also in its potential depths. In particular, the words bear in itself a much greater semantic potential than really expressed meanings in a particular speech situation. However, any word may potentially bear more new meanings. One of the fundamental in modern philosophy is O.O. Potebnia's doctrine of the inner form of word and word picture. It unites different areas of the word nature researches – linguistic, literary criticism, folklore, linguo-philosophical. The scientist found a key to comprehensive analysis of the words, having discovered its main feature – the ability to denote the objects singled out by mind and their properties. Language is not just a set of words, but, first of all, lexical system of many subsystems. This system of sign and semantic units for the denotation of real or imaginary things, that is, the realities of the objective world, life, person and society, products, outlook, and religious intentions, which are framed up by specific language means and transferred as a spiritual heritage from generation to generation. As the researcher noted, " a person would not create a single song or poem, if his/her every word was not ... the poetry itself." [O.O. Potebnia, 1976.-P.154]. He refers to the initial way of human thinking as the mythical. In his view, it is characterized, primarily, by comparison of certain phenomena perceived by man. The word is as if the imprint of the history of our people, their aspirations, ideals and spiritual life of the native speakers. The spiritual and physical life of the individual begins and ends with word. The language that is constantly changing, enriched, improved, depending on the progress of its speaker, reflects ecology of the ethnos, and its culture, lifestyle, customs, there is a connection between it and thinking process. The word can operate on a semantic-informative, associative-image, on philosophical and ethical-philosophical or conceptual-philosophical levels, and …