Landscape cultural code in Adigh linguoculture (on the example of the gogu «road»)

This work is based on a linguacultural approach, which views culture as a hierarchically organized system of cultural codes that structure the extremely complex and multifaceted cultural world. Each cultural code is divided into a number of independent linguistic units. This article examines the semantic features of the natural-landscape code unit gogu "road," which is widely represented in Adyghe linguistic culture. The research material includes linguosemiotic formations with ethnic specificity and high semiotic content – sacred texts, proverbs, metaphors, phraseological units, metonymies, speech stereotypes, and allusions – that allow for the interpretation of a particular people's worldview. In this article, the primary source is the Adyghe Corpus – an annotated electronic collection of texts in the Adyghe language. The study revealed that the unit gogu "road" encompasses a range of cultural meanings, which can be divided into three associative clusters, the most important of which are "gogu as a path" and "gogu as fate." This study also successfully confirmed the applicability of the cultural coding method in studying Adyghe culture.