In a critique of 'Logicheskiy analiz yazyka: kul'turnye kontsepty' ((Logical Analysis of Language: Cultural Concepts) Moscow, 1991), the cultural ontogenesis of the linguistic sign is traced within the framework of Russian language philosophy, from its functioning as a token for physical denotations through a semantically impregnated metaphor to a cultural concept functioning as a symbol of national mentality. (Z. Dubiel in LLBA 1999, vol. 33, n. 3)