Abstract

The article describes a methodological basis for the study of cultural concepts from the position of a cognitive approach to culture studies. It aims at connecting the results of various sciences that study cognitive processes. We make an attempt to reconstruct the concept of “CULTURE” as an element of structured and non-structured knowledge, forming the cognition of an individual and culture in general. In order to reconstruct the constituting elements of the concept, we look into several philosophical theories that helped to build the general European philosophy of culture. Namely, they are the theories of Immanuel Kant, Ernst Cassirer, and Nikolay Berdyaev. We also take into consideration the newest developments in the theory of cultural concepts, especially based on E-corpora of texts. They help to reconstruct different fragments of language views of the world, national outlooks, and human individual cognition. Data from language corpora offers new evidence of how the language worldview and value priorities are formed and how the world is perceived and processed by people belonging to different cultures.