Linguistic and Cultural Studies: The Quest for New Ideas

The article highlights the principles of researching into text from the interdisciplinarylinguistic and cultural perspective. Cognitological analysis of linguistic and extralinguistic culturalmeanings reveals that there exist of specific linguistic and aesthetic formations best presentedthrough the ‘language – culture – identity’ triad. One of the components of literary discourse ismonocultural layer, which secures the continuity of national cultural tradition; researching into it,one should take into account mental and historical, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and otherfactors. Linguistic and aesthetic analysis helps to establish the system of linguistic and culturalmeans (metaphorization, imagery, verbal symbols, linguistic conceptualization, connotativemeanings), which reveals its potential in literary texts. The lingual identity as a general notionalcategory shows its nationally-oriented characteristics through the dichotomies of ‘addresseraddressee’ , ‘author-reader’, ‘narrator-narratee’ and is presented in the author’s idiolect