Language as a Symbolic Culture Code

Natalia Myronova (), Tetiana Levchenko (), Halyna Namachynska (), Liudmyla Herman (), Mariya Tkachivska () and Yuliia Artemova ()
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Natalia Myronova: Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Tetiana Levchenko: Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, Pereiaslav, Ukraine
Halyna Namachynska: Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Drohobych, Ukraine
Liudmyla Herman: State Biotechnological University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Mariya Tkachivska: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Yuliia Artemova: Rivne State University of Humanities, Rivne, Ukraine

Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, 2022, vol. 14, issue 4Sup1, 353-368

Abstract: The article aims to study the culture codes depicted in English postmodern discourse verbalized by phraseological units. The objectives of this paper are to disclose quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the phraseological units in Fowles‟ “The Collector†, specify the culture codes actualized in them, and provide their semantic classification. The principal research methods are induction, deduction, synthesis, content, contextual, componential, and parametric analyses, the analysis of dictionary definitions, descriptive and quantitative methods. The current study results suggest that the imagery of Fowles‟ “The Collector†is created through somatic, artefactual, temporal, spatial, natural, spiritual, zoomorphic, quantitative, and other culture codes. The study demonstrated that the phraseological units with somatic components are the most numerous in the analyzed corpus. They refer to a person‟s mental or emotional state, physical appearance, and his/her adaptation to the social environment, functioning as symbols of national specificity and identity. Furthermore, the somatic idioms with negative connotations prevail over those positively marked. Cultural codes within each group are linked based on similar senses, concepts, or ideas compared to material objects. Thus, an in-depth linguocultural analysis of phraseologisms modelling the English world picture would not be complete without identifying the existing culture codes.

Keywords: Postmodern discourse; phraseological unit; culture; culture code; national specificity and identity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.18662/rrem/14.4Sup1/677

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