STUDIES OF METEOLEXICS IN MODERN LINGUISTICS: TO THE DEGREE OF STUDY OF THE ISSUE

Abstract

Meteorological vocabulary is one of the most developed thematic groups in the languages of the world, which is associated with the important role played by weather in the life of human communities from ancient times to the present day. Research on meteolexics in world linguistics is carried out in various aspects: synchronic and diachronic, structural-semantic, comparative, cognitive, linguocultural, etc.

The purpose of this article is to review, analyze and systematize existing scientific works on the problems of meteolexics in modern linguistic science, written in Russian, English, Kazakh and other Turkic languages, to identify gaps in these studies and to indicate directions for future research.

The research used methods of content analysis, categorization and classification. More than 140 scientific papers located in the largest databases of scientific publications (Google Scholar, E-library, Cyberleninka, Springer, dissertation databases, archives of scientific journals) were analyzed.

The scientific and practical significance of the work lies in the fact that a classification of scientific publications is given according to various criteria, an analysis of their content is carried out and key works on the issues under consideration are noted. The classification is structured in such a way that a researcher interested in the study of meteorological vocabulary can easily determine a potential direction for his scientific work.

As a result of the analysis, we can conclude that meteorological vocabulary is most fully described and studied on the material of the Russian (32 works) and English (18 works) languages. There are significantly fewer publications on Chinese, other Indo-European and Turkic languages. More than 40 works represent comparative studies. The vast majority of works (more than 70) were written within the framework of the systemic-structural paradigm of linguistics - these are studies primarily on semantics and word formation. In publications over the last 20 years, the share of research within the framework of anthropocentrism (cognitive, linguocultural, ethnolinguistic, pragmalinguistic aspects) has been increasingly increasing. Applied and interdisciplinary research is also of great interest.