CULTURAL CODE: DEFINITION, CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES AND MANIFESTATIONS IN THE COMMUNICATIVE SPACE

The author of the paper analyzes the definition of cultural code, which has been significantly actualized by political, economic and socio-cultural processes of recent decades. According to E.V. Kuznetsova’s opinion there are specific characteristics in cultural code’s definition: functional purpose, communicativeness, artificial nature, encryption of information, symbolism, subjectivity. The author reveals these characteristics by means of morphological method, structural and functional one. The author presents the following cultural code’s verbalized manifestations: precedent phenomena (text, statement, situation, name), idioms, ethnocultural stereotypes. She bases her point of view on the distinguished characteristics and on the statement that communication plays a key role in the manifestation of cultural code. She uses here typological and comparative-historical methods. The author illustrates all the considered manifestations by examples from European and Slavic cultural and communicative space (folklore, classical literature). At the end of the article she comes to the conclusion that precedent phenomena, phraseological units, set expressions, various metaphorical entities adequately reflect cultural code of the people, and if cultural code is unique, these manifestations are also unique.