On cosmological notions and their representations in the language

The article presents a very interesting and contemporary problem in comparative linguistics with boundary links to semiotics and culture theory. The study was conducted to determine the evolution of culture exemplifying some cosmological notions of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Particular emphasis was directed towards mythological thinking, semantic description of culture, the world model theory and the methods of their interpretation. Special attention was paid to the sign theory, the methods of semiotics applied to culture study, the world-structure theory. Different attitudes on current trends in the world culture were described. As a means for culture analysis and interpretation of language representations for the cosmological notions the method of morphology was employed to present synchronic linguistic picture of the world in English, Bashkir and Russian.

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