The language and the discourse picture of the world.
This paper depicts two approaches to the discourse picture of the world analysis, such as systemic-structural and functional. The structure of discourse pictures of the world reveals descriptive, axiological, pragmatic and semiotic aspects. The pragmatic aspect of the discourse picture of the world is regarded as one determining the correlation between the semiotic aspect, on the one hand, and descriptive and axiological aspects, on the other. On this basis the paper characterizes the reciprocal influence of the two pictures of the world, the language picture and the discourse one.