PECULIARITIES OF PERCEPTION OF THE CONCEPT IDENTITY IN THE CHILEAN LANGUAGE PICTURE OF WORLD
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko national University of Kyiv, Sіechina Sabina 
Published: July 2021

The article is devoted to the study of the formation of the linguistic picture of the world of Chile, the features of lexical composition and culturally significant vocabulary of the modern Chilean national version of the Spanish language. The fragment of the Chilean national conceptosphere, represented by the concept IDENTITY, and its ethnospecifics is analyzed, the analysis of the main extralingual factors of formation of worldviews of Chileans and historical preconditions of formation of the specified concept in modern Chilean linguistic culture is carried out. Personal contribution to the development of the topic. The author identified the cultural potential of polysemous lexical units that fill the concept IDENTITY in the linguistic picture of the world of Chile. Complemented the traditional notions of verbal representation of the concept IDENTITY by analyzing the features of verbalization of this concept, which are formed under the influence of extralingual factors in the Chilean national version of the Spanish language. The new paradigm of linguistic-cognitive research, oriented in the anthropological direction of the relationship between language and thinking, opens up opportunities to study the specifics of the worldview of different peoples of the world, which in the context of globalization is a requirement of the time. The linguistic picture of the world serves as a means of knowing the national mentality, features of linguistic consciousness and logical-thinking processes of its bearers, as well as national-specific linguistic signs, due to the need to adequately reflect the phenomena of the objective world. Based on the synthesis of the results of fundamental scientific works that the linguistic picture of the world objectifies the conceptual picture of the world by means of language, reveals with the help of language units a set of mental ideas about the world as a certain historically formed way of conceptualizing reality, analysis of a fragment of the linguistic picture of the world of Chile, presented by the concept IDENTITY, is aimed at identifying in its content national-specific features, emotional connotations, value characteristics that reveal the national mentality and character of this linguistic community. This analysis of the concept IDENTITY and the factors influencing its formation in the Chilean nation makes it possible to reveal its mentality, to realize the importance of each Spanish-speaking nation as a state- bearing ethnic component of their country. The study of extralingual factors and, in particular, the national-cultural specifics of metaphorical understanding of the world on the material of the Chilean national version of Spanish allows us to understand the essence and originality of the culture of this Spanish-speaking country. In our study, we analyzed the concept IDENTITY as a complex mental formation that contains knowledge about the cultural-historical aspect, the system of spiritual and moral values, the surrounding reality, which are verbalized by lexical units in speech. Accordingly, the analysis of a fragment of the linguistic picture of the world of Chile, represented by the concept IDENTITY, showed a set of fixed in units of language ideas of the people about history, culture, lifestyle, psychological way of life and mentality. The peculiarities of the use of language units are due to the fact that the worldview of speakers of one multinational language living in different countries is different, and the role of the national factor due to the globalization of economic and political processes that began in the second half of XX century does not decrease, but, on the contrary, sharply intensifies and by all means finds the reflection in language. The study showed that in the Chilean language picture of the world in the content of the concept IDENTITY appear national-specific features, emotional connotations, value characteristics, which were combined in 4 versions of its understanding: military-racial, postmodern business version, religious-catholic, psychosocial.