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One of the urgent problems of modern linguistics is the question of how language picture of the world is reflected in the grammatical level. Traditionally, it is mainly discussed the issues related to lexical semantics. This content vocabulary plan serves as the material for the finding and further study the specific features of the national perception of the world, national thinking. The article throws light upon the omens with the structure of syncretic sentences (transition between simple and complex) in which ...

The article discusses the history of the emergence of axiology as a science, the interrelation of axiology and culturology, describes the basic terms and concepts of linguistic and cultural axiology; in particular the problem of values is discussed from the perspective of the approaches existing in cultural studies and linguistics. The author analyses the linguistic status of the value and evaluation categories and examines the expression of axiological meanings in language. The aim of the study is to examine the ...

Throughout the life people have always been treated with care and caution to such phenomena as thunder storm. This fact associated with that person in a long time could not explain the nature of these phenomena. However, these acoustic and optical phenomena formed the basis of many people's predictions. The authors of this article explored the question of the main characteristics to which attention in the preparation of the forecast was drawn. It is established that the frequency response is the first thunderstorm...

Current linguistics investigates the way human knowledge is reflected in the language. Owing to this fact it has become very acute to explore folklore as a mean of reflecting human knowledge. We concentrate our attention on folk omens, because we take it for a special and very unique genre of folklore. Folk omens represent human observation of nature, the relationship of some natural phenomena. In this article the authors compare the peculiarities of a lexical items rain and snow in Russian and Chinese omens. We t...

Agricultural and Weather-lore is a unique monument of folklore. It accumulates practical wisdom of people, experience gathered during the centuries and carefully passed on from generation to generation. It has been proved that agricultural and weather-lore is closely linked with customs, amulets and talismans. The aim of this article is to reveal whether we can take agricultural and weather-lores for linguistic units. This question has appeared because many scientific investigations have been made devoted to vario...