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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Language and traditional culture : Ethnolinguistic papers]
Moscow: Indrik, 2007 600 p Serie: Traditsionnaia Dukhovnaia Kul`tura Slavian. Sovremennye issledovaniia Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785857594193 Language: Russian
This monograph studies language as a source of information about the traditional culture of the Slavs. It is based primarily on materials of Russian onomastics (onomasiology) and dialect lexics. The author analyzes the main concepts of the traditional linguistic model of the world related to the two main categories "space" and "man (human being)". Contents: Lexical semantics in ethnolinguistic perspective; Man and space in the mirror of language; Semantic reconstruction of lexics and phraseology; Cultural codes and cultural text; "Linguistic myth". Bibliography.