International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The present article discusses the relationship of linguistic, ordinary and scientific pictures of the world. Picture of the world is a concept used to describe the nature of relations with the environment around them and other worlds. This work proved that the picture of the world is a form of human consciousness existence. The article shows that in modern linguistics, there is a direct picture of the world (cognitive picture of the world) and an indirect one (linguistic and artistic picture of the world).