Зиньковская Анастасия Владимировна

The paper demonstrates that in the globalization era, the issue of ethnocultural and confessional identity is a genuine concern; the problem of keeping pure and untouched the spiritual dominants that determined the ethnically specific image of being, influenced formation of the national world view as a whole. In this context, the principles of structure and content of a newly devised linguoconfessional world model are considered. In this world model various confessional world views are concentrated: Christian Orthodox, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.. It is noted, that the 21st century is marked with a growing trend to interpret linguistic and speech phenomena within the framework of world – consciousness – language – culture – confession correlations; features of semiotic and pragmatic representation of the cognitive foundation of each confession are demonstrated, which provide ethical meanings essential for the society and a person as verbalized in confessional texts. The study introduces a concept of confessional dominant that is interpreted as a linguocognitive construct pertaining to a certain confession (Christian Orthodox, Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.) that represents the key attributes of the confession, an initial confessional image, semantic minimum and its semantic-symbolic concretization, judgment component, etc. The study of semiotics and pragmatics of the linguoconfessional world view is most current within the framework of linguoconfessiology, a new field in the modern linguoculturology reflecting a complex system of mutual relations and correlations between language, culture and confession.