SEMANTICS OF THE RUSSIAN LEXEME "AN ANGLE": LINGUO-CULTURAL ASPECT
The article is devoted to the description of the semantics of the Russian lexeme "angle" on the material of lexicographic sources, the results of an associative experiment and the analysis of the National Corpus of the Russian language. The work is an area of interest within modern linguistics examining how spatial objects reflect in linguistic consciousness and become objects by nominative language units. Studies of lexemes with the initial spatial value allow us to consider the development of the initial informational factual content and to discover the cognitive bases of the formation of the figurative and metaphorical component, which has national specificity and interpretation. The paper describes the relevant values of the lexeme under study, which solidified itself in the national linguistic consciousness. The author thinks that the lexeme is used as a geometric spatial figure, a dwelling, a place in space, a part of space, a direction of movement, a point of view. Adjectives with a root morpheme ‘angle ’ can be used in nominations that reflect the subjective sphere and express the axiological attitude of the speaker to the topic of his/her speech.