Russian Federation
UDC 37
The article is devoted to the analysis of language as a mental code and an examination of its role in shaping the value orientations of students in the system of secondary vocational education. Drawing on achievements in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguoculturology, language is considered as a means of conceptualizing the world, accumulating collective experience and cultural norms, as well as a mechanism for transmitting and processing values.
language as a mental code; linguistic personality; value orientations; cognitive linguistics; linguoculturology
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