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Article name Some Features of the Buryat Traditional Conceptual Cosmology: Substantiality and Relativism as Characteristics of Culture
Authors Zhanaev A.T. Postgraduate Student, ayur_zhanaev@mail.ru
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Section CULTUROLOGY
UDK 811.512.31
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Annotation The paper attempts to provide some features of the conceptual structure of the Buryat ethnic consciousness in a comparative perspective on the example of linguistic material. In European thinking, the substance had characteristics of real essence, which allowed believing in the permanence and stability of the physical and social world. In contrast, the Eastern world view is based on the principle of communication and variability. In this world the essence has the meaning of movement, dynamics and permanent formation. In this regard, as well as on the basis of linguistic analysis, the specific characteristics of the Buryat concept are its dynamic nature and inability to conceptualize abstract quality. According to the author, these features must be taken into account for further consideration and interpretation of the linguistic material.
Key words conceptual structures, the Buryat language, categorization, substantial and relative worldviews.
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