A new fundamental concept in linguistics: “Language landscape of the world”

Abstract

In linguistics, we find the term “Language landscape of the world” for the first time in the research of the well-known German linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. W. von Humboldt was the first to put forward ideas about the existence of the language landscape. He applied the didactic method in the analysis of language to his studies and noted that language forms a subjective view of the objective world in the form of inseparable unity with thinking. In general, within the framework of the world’s language perspective, not only the ideas of specific languages or language groups, and language families, but also about the reality surrounding them, but also about each individual himself, his psyche and thinking are reflected. It is from this point of view that the term “national language view of the world” is sometimes used in linguistics along with the expression (term) “language landscape of the world”.
Although the topic “Language landscape of the world” is an important topic both in terms of relevance and comprehensiveness, today the study of the concept of language landscape has unfortunately not been studied very widely.