Title of the article:

THE CONCEPT OF “FATHERLAND” IN THE PATRIOTIC DISCOURSE

Author(s):

Irina Y. Murzina

Information about the author/authors

Irina Y. Murzina — DSc in Culture Studies, Professor, Ural State Pedagogical University, Kosmonavtov av. 26, 620017 Ekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: еkb-ural@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2017

Volume

Vol. 46

Pages

Pp. 39-50

Received

May 06, 2017

Date of publication

December 15, 2017

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71.04

Abstract

Concepts reveals complex interrelationship of personal experience and the nature of culture, define multidimensionality of the mental world. The sphere of concepts of language creates the bases for formation of the cultural person perceiving and reproducing a national image of the world. The semantic field of the concept “patriotism” includes basic values of a civil and spiritual and moral order, with concept “fatherland” acting as the kernel. Substantial consistence of the word “fatherland” conditions both the view of culture “from within” and understanding of place and role of the country in the world history. The paper interprets concept “fatherland” as a culture constant and considers it in religious (the heavenly fatherland) and secular (the terrestrial homeland) contexts as exemplified by verbal (recorded in dictionaries) and visual (icon) cultural texts. The author discovers sociocultural meaning of the concept “patriotism”, its dependence on ideology and socio-political interests and demonstrates that emphasis on religious meaning of a concept “fatherland” facilitates fuller understanding of its cultural value and allows specifying the directions of patriotic education.

Keywords

concept, semantic field, fatherland, patriotism, patriotic education, identity.

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