REFLECTION OF THE EVENK CULTURE IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE (FRAGMENTS OF THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD)

Abstract

Language is an integral part of the culture of society, as well as of each person separately. In general, language is considered as the most important independent element of the social sphere of a person. But in the study of the language it is impossible not to touch upon the cultural characteristics of the ethnos, since this is the source of its origin. Language and culture are interconnected, they reflect the world around. But language is by no means a simple mirror of the world, and therefore captures not only what is perceived, but also meaningful, conscious, interpreted by a person. This means that the human world is not only what he perceived through his senses. On the contrary, a more or less significant part of this world is made up of the subjective results of a person’s interpretation of the perceived. That is why in scientific research there is such a term as «linguistic picture of the world», which we will study in this work within the framework of the Evenk ethnos. Material and spiritual culture is reflected in the language, primarily in its vocabulary - vocabulary. This is due to such areas of scientific knowledge as linguistics (lexicology, lexicography). Due to the fact that the Evenk language is included in the «Red Book of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia» (1994; 2002), the article raises questions of ethnolinguistics and linguoecology. Purpose of the work: To study the vocabulary reflecting the material and spiritual culture of the Evenks, as a phenomenon of the linguistic picture of the world of the ethnos. Classify it by individual elements as thematic word groups (TG). To analyze the peculiarities of the existence of the vocabulary associated with the culture of the Evenks in the linguistic environment of the ethnos. Determine the role and place of language vocabulary in the practice of school and university teaching.