Title of the article:

THE LANGUAGES OF CULTURE: FROM THEORY TO EVERYDAY LIFE PRACTICES

Author(s):

Maria N. Zhylenko

Zhanna A. Beresneva

Information about the author/authors

Maria N. Zhylenko — PhD in Culturology, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Culture, A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, Khibinsky pass., 6, 129337 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1196-4935 E-mail: zhylenko@mail.ru

Zhanna A. Beresneva — Senior Lecturer of the Department of Slavic Studies and Cultural Studies, Institute of Slavic Culture, A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, Khibinsky pass., 6, 129337 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-2284 E-mail: zhanna-beresneva@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2022

Volume

Vol. 63

Pages

pp. 107–113

Received

September 27, 2021

Approved after reviewing

December 18, 2021

Date of publication

March 28, 2022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2022-63-107-113

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71

Abstract

Language is an essential part of communication – it forms culture and provides it with transferring of social knowledge. Language, culture and communication are inseparable from each other and are the basis of human existence. Thorough approach to everyday life practices makes it possible to reveal their sign character and define them as specific language systems which give clear vision of aesthetic, ethical etc. peculiarities of a given epoch. Travel notes are an essential resource of our knowledge about everyday life of the nation. They offer us rich material about people, their appearance, historic events etc. Among other details travel notes contain a lot of interesting data about costume which can be regarded as a special sign system, language of culture, delivering information not only about its owner, but the whole epoch as well. The paper chose as an example the travel notes “Frigate Pallade” by I. A. Goncharov. In one of its chapters costume becomes an original communicative code for intercultural interaction.

Keywords

culture, communication, languages of culture, everyday life practices, travel notes, costume.

References

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2 Goncharov I. A. Fregat “Pallada”. Ocherki puteshestviia v 2 t. [Frigate “Pallada”. Travel essays in 2 vols.], vol. 2. Az.lib.ru. Available at: http://az.lib.ru/g/goncharow_i_a/text_0084.shtml (accessed 20 September 2021). (In Russian)

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