Linguistic explication of rational and irrational knowledge types in the content of toponyms (on the material of the linguocultural dictionary)
Journal: Open Linguistics
Year: 2024

Abstract The processes of objectification of rational and irrational types of knowledge in the cultural semantics of toponyms as a product of the mental activity of the subject (individual and ethnolinguistic collective) are considered. The analysis is carried out on the material of toponyms that involve colour values, numerals and phytonyms, mythonyms, etc. The rational type of knowledge contains rich empirical information with diverse cultural semantics. The irrational type of knowledge repres