The value fundamentals of the “we image” in Russian culture through the prism of mother-child communication

Abstract

This article interprets the results of an analysis of communicative interaction between a mother and a child in the Russian national linguistic and cultural community. Based on the author’s video corpus of interactions in the mother-child dyads, a number of maternal communication techniques are identified, which are proven to be teleonomic using a cognitive discursive analysis. Using these techniques, mothers create value fundamentals of the Russian ethnic picture of the world in the cognitive experience of a child. The article examines verbal and non-verbal means of implementing such techniques and characterises the developed value fundamentals.

Keywords

• ethnic picture of the world
• value picture of the world
• mother-child communication
• maternal communication technique
• verbal means of communication
• nonverbal means of communication