Концепт как творческий акт и ключ к познанию русской народной личности

Concept as creativity and the key to cognition of the Russian national identity

This article considers the concept of destiny in order to identify the dominant features of linguistic-creative activities of the Russian national identity. The main part of the article discloses the adopted definition of the notion concept as a phenomenon of language and culture and highlights its basic components. In this article “concept” is considered in the context of modern human cognition. Then this article is devoted to the analysis of the initial semantics of destiny concept as well as the later “meaning increasing” in myths and proverbs, being made on it’s basis. The anthropic principle, which lies in the consciousness of the world, has predestined the affinity of the archaic stage of human evolution. Therefore, the main part of the article analyses the etymology of the word-concept destiny in order to identify the basics of becoming a distinctive prototypical Russian language consciousness. Then this article is devoted to the mytho-poetic aspects of the concept destiny , which is rooted in totemic worldview.The analysis of the development and afterwards the extinction of these traditions also shows the uniqueness of Russian mythopoetic tradition. Proverbs are not only a reliable ontology of the linguistic being, in which the Russian national identity have developed. Proverbs are a vivid manifestation of linguistic-creative potential of Russian national identity. Therefore, a special place in the article covers the analysis of the destiny concept in the Russian paremic picture of the world. The appeal to the etymological analysis of the concept of destiny , and then its consideration in the context of the language, mythopoetic and paremic pictures of the world and being makes possible to reconstruct the development of his initial inner form . As a result, analysing the history of words , it is possible to make a conclusion on the national originality of the creative potential of the Russian language native-speakers and the Russian culture. In the final part of the article, some conclusions about the values and perceptions of ethical and cultural imperatives of the Russian language personality are made on the basis of the arguments having been put forward above.