The Influence of Landscape and Climatic Conditions in the Carpathians on the Formation of Linguistic Personality

Abstract

In the current stage of development of our country globalization and integration
processes are becoming more powerful. In these circumstances, the problem of preserving
Ukrainian national identity becomes urgent. The article deals with conditions of the linguistic
identity as the bearer of the Ukrainian national cultural space. Based on the analysis of current
researches of individual language learning the author concludes that linguistic identity is a social
phenomenon. The development and establishment of the linguistic personality arises in the process
of education, training, communication, i.e. in different activities depending on the nature of the
social environment in general and speech environment in particular. However, some scientific
research allow to affirm the need to incorporate formative influence of the nature on the linguistic
identity. The focus of the article is Carpathian region as an environment in which ethnic culture
and language were almost no external influences. An important conclusion from this research is
that learning the problem of linguistic identity should take into account forming impact of the
environment - both natural and linguistic.