Language as a Cultural Code of Nation

Abstract

The co-authored monograph is a synchronic and diachronic text investigation of the English language aiming at lexical, semantic, pragmatic, communicative and cognitive analysis revealing mechanisms and function regularities of a language and culture component in the English world view. The scientific attention is focused on the consistent representation on the word, sentence and text levels such significant linguistic categories as a stereotype, concept, world view, and such cultural notions as cultural values, speech etiquette, political correctness, estimation, flattery, praise as they are reflected in modern theoretical literature dealing with the problems of language and culture studies, cognitology, sociology, psychology, ethnolinguistics.