Еthnocultural potential of the meaning of words (wreath - crown)

Abstract

Some lexical units (primarily, specific units) reserve in itself a deep internal form, which can be revealed not only by using own linguistic techniques to examine the nature of words, but by reconstructing a variety of topics related to ethnohistory, ethnopsychology etnoculture of its speaker. The speaker learns the language, which is a repository of some nation experience and, through it, to some extent the all mankind’s experience in the perception of the world. Thus, native speakers inherit the semantic richness of the language, and not only in its active manifestation, but also in its potential depths. In particular, the words bear in itself a much greater semantic potential than really expressed meanings in a particular speech situation. However, any word may potentially bear more new meanings.