The Сurrent State of the Theory of Linguocultural Types

The review article specifies and summarises modern approaches to the description and modelling of linguocultural types: it gives brief information about the emergence of the theory of linguocultural types and the main stages of its development, presents the main features of linguocultural types formulated by Vladimir. I. Karasik and Olga. A. Dmitrieva. The author’s card index of of linguocultural types was compiled with the help of continuous sampling from the number of researchers’ studies on this theory. The card index is totalling about 300 units. The most representative examples are used as illustrative material for the article. Using the descriptive-analytical method, the article demonstrates the current approaches to typologisation and classification of modelled and described linguocultural types, and substantiates the need for systematisation and parameterisation of existing types. Two main approaches to the modelling of linguocultural types are presented and main types of sources are commented on, on the materials of which linguocultural types can be modelled and described.