NATIONAL-CULTURAL CODE IN THE SYSTEM OF THE MODERN POLYNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of the national-cultural code which allows to reveal the specificity and uniqueness of lingual processes in the system of the polynational English language in the linguistic and conceptual representation of the world in the consciousness of representatives of national-territorial varieties of the English language that is widespread in various linguo-cultural areas of the world (in North American, Australian and New Zealand, Asian and South African areas). The national-cultural code in various linguo-cultural areas of the distribution of the polynational English language is nation-linguage-culture dependent and national-specific, certain national-specific uniqueness, expressed at the conceptual and discursive levels in all the studied linguo-cultural regions, is observed. In the course of interaction of the introduced culture and its lingual system (English) with the indigenous lingual systems in essentially new lingual, social, cultural, geographical, natural, political, etc. environment, there is an absorption of indigenous cultures and languages into the system of multi-national lingual phenomenon, which in the modern multi-national English language is observed in borrowing concepts and conceptual structures from the conceptual systems of indigenous languages, and is manifested in the verbalized lexical units, functioning in the socio-political discourse of various national-territorial varieties of English.