The types of linguocultureme and their features

The types of linguocultureme and their features

It is obvious to say that an extremely important role in the world picture
representation is assigned to culture relevant language units – linguoculturemes.
Russian scholar Vorobyov suggested the term “linguoculturemes” to denote culture
relevant language units. Linguocultureme – is a complex, interlevel language unit, a dialectical unit of both linguistic and extralinguistic factors, the correlation between the form of a verbal sign, its semantic content and cultural sense linguoculturemes can be expressed by various language forms including words, word combinations, text fragments, phraseological units, stylistic devices, syntactical structures and even the whole text. The sources of linguoculturemes can be different in every culture, for example, realia, geographical position, descriptive text, names of famous people, description of place, myths, legends, climate, images, beliefs, food, clothes customs and traditions. Accordingly, linguoculturemes can be presented by non-equivalent
lexicon, anthroponyms, mythologemes, phraseological units, paroemia, speech forms of etiquette, image-bearing means, etc. Widely known of it are the followings:
1. Realia. It can be divided in different categories:
-geographical realia: canyon, rancho; names of plants: honey-dew
(медвяная роса), names of animals: grizzly (большой серый медведь).
-ethnographical realia: everyday life and household use wordshamburger, hot-dog, parka (одежда эскимосов), saloon etc.