Open AccessLINGUO-CULTURAL ASPECT OF HABITAT AS A LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH - SPEAKING SOCIUM
Author(s) -
Natalia Ivanovna Dorokhova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik astrahanskogo gosudarstvennogo tehničeskogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-1076
pISSN - 1812-9498
DOI - 10.24143/1812-9498-2019-1-63-67
Subject(s) - socialization , habitat , phenomenon , history , object (grammar) , subject (documents) , sociology , ecology , aesthetics , linguistics , art , social science , epistemology , philosophy , biology , computer science , library science
The article dwells upon the essence and dynamics of the phenomenon of habitat as a living environment. The term “habitat” is researched in presentation of culturology. Some cultural linguistic aspects of the formation of the medieval habitat of Anglo-Saxon ethnos in V-XV cc. and the local modus of socialization of Anglo-Saxon ethnos in V-XI cc. are studied. The semantics of nominations of a dwelling place as a local space of social interaction is considered. The object of interest is a dynamics of semiosis of everyday life of Anglo-Saxon ethnos during the examined period. Habitat/living environment is considered both as dwelling and as a phenomenon of the daily routine and ritualized tenor of life of special ethnos, whose multiple manifestations are reflected in its linguistic culture as a conglomerate of dynamically changing signs throughout history of this ethnos. Historical pre-conditions of development of Anglo-Saxon habitat and some language signs nominating the Anglo-Saxon dwelling and areas round it are examined. The conclusion is made in relation to the concept of the term “habitat” within the research.