Word-image integrative description model

Modern linguistics is increasingly striving to become explanatory, i.e. explaining the functioning of the language as a means of “externalization” of thinking and access to human consciousness, considering speech activity as a specific cognitive process. Agreeing with E. S. Kubryakova's point of view, who admits that through the word one can go “to various structures of knowledge, both verbalized and nonverbalized” [Kubryakova, 2004, p. 389], we propose in this article a model of an integrative description of a word-image based on an integral approach to the meaning of the word (among supporters of this concept are A. I. Smirnitsky, D. P. Gorsky, L. Ya. Reznikov, T. P. Lomtev, A. A. Leontiev, A. A. Zalevskaya, O. S. Akhmanova, L. S. Vygotsky, M. Ya. Rosenfeld, I. A. Sternin, etc.), the methodology for lexicographic description of stereotypical images (V. V. Krasnykh ), as well as practice in the field of lexicographic portraiture (Yu. D. Apresyan). The word-image in this article refers to a conditional unit that reflects national and cultural ideas about an object or phenomenon by the unity of a sound plus graphic expression and a semantic universal that exists in the minds of native speakers in the form of an image of a reality fragment. The model of an integrative description of a word-image represents a comprehensive description of each lexical-semantic variant (LSV) of a word in a fairly wide range of linguistic rules, including etymological, semantic, morphological, compatibility, phraseological, in conjunction with linguistic and cultural information about stereotypical images denoted by the LSV of a word.