Mythologeme as a Sign in the System of Cultural Concepts
The article deals with the problem of the role of mythologeme as a sing within its traditional deﬁnition in the system of cultural concepts. The author introduces linguistic and semantic insight in the structure of mythologemes and explains the difference between mythological and rational thinking under the process of language conceptualization of the world. The work also contains the classiﬁcation of mythological archetype content; the analysis of mythologeme performance and its possible semantic changes during the development of cultures. As a conclusion the author gives a detailed characteristics to three types of mythologeme (i.e. predicate mythologeme, graphologeme and prototypic mythologeme) and marks their main functions and roles in the system of culture.