carriers of the same “glasses”, is the national mentality, which is fixed in the national language
of the representatives of this culture (KORNILOV, 2003, p. 77). At first, the external conditions
of existence (climate, nature), cultural and everyday traditions, and physiological and
anthropological characteristics form specific qualities that form the basis of the national
character, temperament, and national mentality. Then, these features are displayed and fixed in
the national language. Later, they are passed on to the next generations of native speakers in a
ready-made verbalized form, that is, they become socially inherited.
Therefore, the uniqueness of the verbal reflection of the world – the so-called “linguistic
consciousness” is set and determined by the peculiarities of the national mentality and objective
(sometimes quite obvious) differences between the natural environment and material culture.
The term “linguistic consciousness” often receives different interpretations in scientific
literature. In linguistics, the mental mechanisms of speech that provide human speech activity
have not yet been terminated. Z.D. Popova and I.A. Sternin consider that these mechanisms and
knowledge make up the linguistic consciousness of a person and distinguish three types of
consciousness: cognitive, linguistic, and communicative. Cognitive consciousness is associated
with human cognitive activity. Linguistic consciousness is considered an integral part, an aspect
of communicative consciousness, which, in turn, is considered an integral component of the
nation’s cognitive consciousness. Linguistic consciousness is a set of mental mechanisms for
generating and understanding speech, as well as storing language in consciousness. It includes
the semantics of linguistic signs, semantic content assigned to linguistic signs. Human speech
activity is a component of a broader concept – human communicative activity. Communicative
consciousness is formed by a set of knowledge and mechanisms that ensure a person’s
communicative activity and includes communicative attitudes, a set of communicative
categories, as well as a set of norms and rules of communication accepted in society (POPOVA;
STERNIN, 2007).
I. Zimniaia (1993) defines linguistic consciousness as a form of existence of individual,
cognitive consciousness of homo sapiens, a person speaking, a person communicating, a person
as a social being, as an individual. N.V. Ufimtseva (2015) interprets linguistic consciousness
as an interiorized system of verbal behavior.
Representatives of modern cognitive linguistics have concluded that linguistic
consciousness is a special mechanism that ensures the fusion, integration of knowledge of the
language with knowledge of the world. Linguistic consciousness arises as a result of the
interaction of units of knowledge about the world with linguistic units. It is characterized by its
own units, which have a binary structure, which is formed from two components – units of