The linguocultureme «кухня» (kitchen) in russian language

Abstract

The Russian language worldview gives rise to the research of the cultureme «кухня» in the native language. The aim of the study is to describe the cultureme «кухня» in Russian language and to show it as a representative of the national and cultural information. The cultureme «кухня» is seen as a close part of the Russian language worldview. The main attention of the article devotes to a process of development of the concept «кухня» in the meaning of a unique cultural talk ritual and the way the term is associated with the Russian culture. About 100 lexical and semantic units that represent the concept «кухня» taken from vocabularies of the Russian language and works of fiction are materials for the research. The results of the study are showing that the concept «кухня» has both universal cultural meaning and the national cultural specification. The concept «кухня» in the worldview of Russian language is complex by nature: a kitchen is not just a place for cooking; it is a place for meetings of representatives of the democratic layers of the society, the place for friendly conversations and the place for discussing some family problems.Moreover, in the article there is a try to describe the cultureme «кухня» in the linguamethodical aspect. Russian language teaching is based on background lexis, which helps to form intercultural competence in conditions of a new language environment.The research of cultural marked units of languages has perspectives in both linguistic and methodological aspects.