Natural phenomena as an object of anthropocentric interpretation

The article describes anthropocentric methods in linguistic representation of natural phenomena in the Russian, English and Chuvash linguocultures, comparing their axiological profiles. The material consists of proverbs, examples from literary texts and lexicographic data; the analysis was carried out parametrically at the lexical-semantic, grammatical and discursive levels. It has been established that with common cognitive bases for agentivization and personalization of natural processes, the linguistic and cultural distribution of accents is not the same: in Russian and English linguistic cultures, activity-control interpretations are more often dominant, whereas in Chuvash, consistent and targeted formulas for interaction with nature are more noticeable. The author shows that metaphorization and anthropomorphization increase the interpretability and regularity of descriptions while enhancing evaluation.