“CULTURAL BACKGROUND” AS AN IMPLICIT CULTURAL COMPONENT IN THE SEMANTICS OF LANGUAGE SIGNS

“CULTURAL BACKGROUND” AS AN IMPLICIT CULTURAL COMPONENT IN THE SEMANTICS OF LANGUAGE SIGNS

Author:  Radbil T.B.

Abstract:  The article provides new research material to extend the author’s ideas developed in the existing papers about the ways of detection and linguistic interpretation of the “cultural background” lying behind some culturally significant units in the Russian language ( man, character, face, etc.). The ideas are based on the analysis of cultural connotations in phraseologisms, specific features of free words compatibility and some usual derivation models.

Keywords:  “cultural background”  ◆  cultural connotation  ◆  implicit culturally significant information in language  ◆  phraseological units  ◆  linguocultural studies  ◆  the Russian language