Keyword: «landscape vocabulary»

The paper deals with landscape vocabulary in the Russian old-time dialects of Yakutia, as well as the toponyms of the northern territories associated with the names of the landscape. Practical material selected from the dictionaries of M.F. Druzhinina method of continuous sampling, speaks about the most significant for a native speaker properties of geographical objects, the characteristic features of the local relief. Under the landscape vocabulary refers to the names of the relief, soil, water, among them the names of the elements of both the natural landscape itself and the landscape involved in labor activity or resulting from human activity. Toponymy can give information of a truly encyclopedic nature: about the nature of the region, its waters, vegetation, animal world, minerals. Vocabulary related to the landscape and geographical landmarks, can vividly characterize the life, culture, lifestyle, climate, customs and culture of people.

In this article, the problem of the relationship of language and culture of the people is considered from the point of view of the anthropocentric theory of language. The desire of human thinking to analyze the corresponding structures inevitably leads to the need for a systemic and structural understanding of the facts of the language and classification of the material. The work attempts to differentiate the nominations of landscape vocabulary of the Yakut language. The systemic and structural characteristic of practical material shows the interconnectedness and interdependence of nominations. The selection of these processes is due to the cognitive process itself, and the result of cognition of reality is the formation of a linguistic picture of the world.