Family as a basis of the development of spirituality in the linguistic consciousness of the Cossacks

Family as a form of the social organization takes the leading place in the linguistic consciousness of the dialect speakers. In the Cossack society the attitude towards the family values had been changing for decades: from the full rejection of family and disregard of women and family to valuing the family. The dynamics of the Cossack representations of the family values and the details of the interrelations in families are vividly demonstrated in the Don dialect - the original cumulative basis of the Cossack history and culture.