LANGUAGE AS AN ELEMENT OF THE WORLD VIEW SYSTEM.

Abstract

The world view is a systematic object created by many elements. In different cases a number of the elements of this system may not coincide, but a language element is obligatory for all world views as it accomplishes the extremely important function of articulation of conceptual relief of the world view system. In the absence of language the aspect of conceptual hierarchy of different parts of the world view remains vague and unclear.

The world view reflects a certain body of the visions about the world and the place of a human being in it and special characteristics of the ties within this coordinate system. In fact, the world view reflects the originality of perception and interpretation by an individual of the events and phenomena which are important to him/her. He/she creates that basis of world perception relying on which an individual realizes his/her energetic potential. The structural elements of the big picture of the world is a body of specialized pictures (daily, mythological, religious, scientific, symbolic, linguistic, artistic, gender, ethnic, geopolitical, ethnic, axiological and etc).

The attention to the phenomenon "the world view", which becomes more intense on the back of the interest in cognitive processes and their interpretation, led to the appearance of more questions than answers. This specificity is conditioned by, first of all, the fact that the conceptual parameters of the world view are so extensional that they constantly avoid the unified, consensual notions. The essence of the correlative dependence of language and the world view is clearly expressed with the conceptual formula: the borders of language determine the borders of the world view. However, such dependence is not one-sided but mutual, as the specifics of the world view, its axiological relief and semantic hierarchy influence considerably the linguistic sphere as a whole, its genesis and, in particular, the perspectives of its development.

Key words: the world view, language, vision, element, system, genesis, casual relations.