Anthropocentrism as a source of the language vocabulary
The article deals with anthropocentric semantics, which is one of the main trends of linguistic anthropology (creation of a person's character by language means). A detailed description of the main cognitive mechanisms underlying the formation of polysemant meanings and the definition of a semantic invariant cementing lexical-semantic variation of a polysemantic word is provided. It should be noted that in the article the problem of determining main cognitive mechanisms underlying the formation of polysemant meanings and the definition of a semantic invariant cementing lexical-semantic variation of a polysemantic word is solved. Factual material of the article demonstrates that all the meanings of a polysemantic word represent the interaction of two mental spaces, namely, a system meaning and a lexical invariant. According to the authors' opinion, the problem of the semantic coherence of a polysemantic word can be solved by the recognition of the non-contextual invariant meaning having a general character, which is formed on the basis of the functioning of the word at the level of the language system.