CULTURAL AND COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF TOPONYMS IN RELIGIOUS WORKS

Abstract

Despite the importance of theonymy as a special sector of the onomastic space, it presents a particular difficulty for the modern researcher, in contrast to other types of proper names. The fact that those onyms are insufficiently commented onomatically is due, first of all, to the fact that many of them belong to the most ancient lexical layers, to moreover, often carefully guarded in the environment of use, as well as the fact that in their teaching one should not proceed from modern scientific and philosophical concepts, but from the role that this onymic type played at the moment of occurrence, which requires the reconstruction of the worldview of people of that time, their religious picture of the world. The purpose of this study is to describe the cultural and cognitive characteristics of toponyms as part of the linguistic picture of the world and to identify the cognitive mechanisms for creating geographical names based on religious concepts. The study of the toponym is considered as a certain structure of knowledge, which makes it possible to identify and describe mental representations of the space as a whole. Practical and theoretical part of onomastic linguoconceptology in further research of practical tasks, monographs, higher education in the preparation of teaching materials for places, etc. can be used.

This article defines the cultural and cognitive characteristics of the study of toponyms in religious works. Particular attention is paid to the works carried out in line with the cognitive and functional approaches to the analysis of toponymic material.

The subject of this article is toponymy in Orkhan-Yenisei manuscripts. As a result of the research, cognitive analysis of examples of toponyms in religious works was made and conclusions were given from a cultural-cognitive point of view.