Manifestation of the anthropic cultural code in the Russian linguistic worldview (based on the texts from the "Russian Native Language" textbook)

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Authors: Maria V. Surkova
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Abstract

This article analyses the anthropic code of culture verbalised by the words of lexico-semantic groups of nouns associated with the concept of Person. The study is relevant since it interprets the components of such noun groups as a manifestation of cultural codes from the perspective of the anthropocentric paradigm. Lexico-semantic word groups active in native Russian textbooks are considered as potentially significant for denoting a fragment of the Russian linguistic worldview. The frequency of nouns included in these groups serves as a guideline enabling the most prominent lexical-semantic groups to be identified within the total amount of material at the initial stage of the analysis. The further analysis builds on the syntagmatic characteristics of these nouns including their combinability, certain grammatical features of verbal predicate associated with them, and others. These characteristics make it possible to clarif y the issue of using nouns as a verbalised embodiment of the cultural code. Nouns verbalising the anthropic code of culture were systematised within the framework of subcodes. They are anthropomorphic, anthropic-corporeal, anthropic-emotional, anthropic-axiological, and anthropic-spiritual subcodes, as well as the thematic context types in which these words function. The research material comprised exercise texts from native Russian language textbooks for years 5 and 9 autho red by O. M. Aleksandrova, O. V. Zagorovskaya, S. I. Bogdanov, and others.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Language and Culture Linguistic research and analysis Linguistics and Language Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Russian language at school
Volume
87
Issue
1
Pages
88–101
Publication date
27 January 2026