Language as an ontological foundation and a system-forming element of culture

Agafonov E. A.

in the article, based on the synthesis of modern ideas of cultural studies, cognitive linguistics and non-classical epistemology, an attempt is made to comprehensively analyze the language as the foundation of culture. The systematic meaning of language in relation to such elements of culture as values, norms, traditions is shown. The author analyzes language not only as a specific means of human cognition of the surrounding world, but also as a form of expression of ethnic, social characteristics of culture. The influence of language on various types of human activity is considered as the reason for the actualization of linguistic problems in modern philosophy, which today claims the role of a general methodology of humanitarian knowledge.

Keywords:language, culture, being, man, cognition, meaning, sign, system, element, norms, traditions, values, subculture, sociolect.