Kalba kaip kaupimo priemonė ir kultūros reprezentavimo forma
Language as an Accumulator and a Form of Culture Representation

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the dependency of language development on changes in the spiritual and material culture of the people which is in constant motion and self-affirmation. It also regulates social experience by carrying an echo of the past and forming the future worldview of its carrier. The study emphasizes that every national culture is developed according to the laws of diffusion and convergence. These laws allow the culture to share its achievements with other peoples and create spontaneously and independently of them. Language accumulates the achievements of different spheres of a people’s culture in their complex and interconnected modes. The dependence of the dynamics of the lexicon on changes in material and spiritual culture is obvious. It may lead to the erroneous generalization that any changes in extralingual reality cause changes in language. However, the culture is not fully verbalized. There are small fragments of culture that are not nominated in language, i.e. part of the practical and intellectual heritage of the individual is represented outside the verbalization, because it has not become a collective experience or those fragments of collective experience have not become relevant to society. The many details of extralinguistic reality accurately provide a basis for a linguistic analysis of the composition, semantic structure of language vocabulary. The markers of extralinguistic reality are the changes in cultural dominants.

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