The Concept of Cultural Code and its аctualization in the Communicative Space

Abstract

The main topic of the research is the cultural code of the people in the communicative space. The goal of the research is to identify the characteristic features of cultural code on the example of the verbalized manifestations in the communicative space.

During the research we identified such characteristic features of the cultural code as functionality, communicability, artificial nature, information encryption or coding, axiological nature, symbolism, processuality, and subjectivity. These peculiarities are demonstrated in phraseological units, precedent phenomena, ethno-cultural stereotypes on the material of the Russian and Belarusian languages. The author analyzes each of the above-mentioned textual phenomena in the communicative space as a kind of «a marker» of cultural code in the language by means of morphological, structural-functional, typological and generalizing methods. We present as examples of ethno-cultural stereotyped images, the images of a raven (in the Russian cultural and communicative space) and a stork (in the Belarusian cultural and communicative space). In the conclusion the author points out the importance of studying of cultural code, which plays a special role in preserving the uniqueness of each nation's cultural heritage in the context of technological and digitalization processes, and highlights the ability of the cultural code to capture the results of cultural creation, values, and meanings, and to transmit them to future generations.

Keywords: cultural code, language, communicative space, phraseological unit, precedent phenomenon, ethnocultural stereotype.