Гастрономическая и вакхическая концептосферы как зеркало национального менталитета (лингвоконцептуальный подход)

The article analyses basic concepts of any linguistic culture. The authors consider that gastronomic and Bacchic conceptospheres are axiologically significant for national mentality characteristic. Linguistic culture of food and drink is regarded as a part of the national linguistic culture that can influence the formation and development of ethnoculture. Linguistic cognitive and linguistic cultural approaches to data analysis and observation of culture of food and drink in different spheres allow to consider it as the key factor of the national culture understanding as a whole, they become a means of the national picture of the world reconstruction. Within these approaches the authors concede linguistic cultural or conceptual fields to be the most important. Linguistic cultural field combines linguistic and extralinguistic (cultural) information. The notion “conceptual field” is one of the key notions in cultural linguistics. The aim of linguistic culture of food and drink description within the given paradigm is not only to put every linguistic form in line with its cognitive analog, its conceptual or cognitive structure, but also to set tactics of name forming and processes of coagulation...