Naturocentrism in the japanese value worldview (on the example of the value dominant «Nature»)

DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2023_2_149

Anna V. Kozachina

Daria A. Litovchenko

Abstract. The paper is devoted to the research of «Nature» as a key dominant in the Japanese value worldview. The purpose is to identify the explication of dominant in the textbook «Our Morality» ((私たちの道徳 /watashi-tachi no do:toku/) for elementary and secondary school students. The relevance of the paper is due to the interest of linguacultural modeling of worldviews of individual cultural communities. Practical novelty is the methods of linguacultural analysis are applied to describe the value dominants of the Japanese linguacultural. In the course of the study, more than 350 lexical units were identified by the continuous sampling method. The lexeme-representant of the studied value dominant was revealed, the ways of its linguistic and lexical-semantic representation were analyzed. Multimodal analysis revealed a number of value indicators, expressed by both linguistic means and visual components. The conclusions can be of interest to the experts in the field of Japanese studies, axiolinguistics and linguacultural studies.

Keywords: Naturocentrism, nature, value worldview, linguistic worldview, the Japanese language.

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