Landscape cultural code in Adigh linguoculture (on the example of the gogu «road»)
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-4-474-486
EDN: XHDLDI
Abstract
This work is based on a linguacultural approach, which views culture as a hierarchically organized system of cultural codes that structure the extremely complex and multifaceted cultural world. Each cultural code is divided into a number of independent linguistic units. This article examines the semantic features of the natural-landscape code unit gogu "road," which is widely represented in Adyghe linguistic culture. The research material includes linguosemiotic formations with ethnic specificity and high semiotic content – sacred texts, proverbs, metaphors, phraseological units, metonymies, speech stereotypes, and allusions – that allow for the interpretation of a particular people's worldview. In this article, the primary source is the Adyghe Corpus – an annotated electronic collection of texts in the Adyghe language. The study revealed that the unit gogu "road" encompasses a range of cultural meanings, which can be divided into three associative clusters, the most important of which are "gogu as a path" and "gogu as fate." This study also successfully confirmed the applicability of the cultural coding method in studying Adyghe culture.
About the Author
Nuriet K. Gubzhockova
Maikop State Technological University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, and Pedagogy
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Gubzhockova N.K. Landscape cultural code in Adigh linguoculture (on the example of the gogu «road»). Kavkazologiya. 2025;(4):474-486. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-4-474-486. EDN: XHDLDI
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