CHARACTERISTICS OF ADJECTIVES DENOTING THE CONCEPT OF “RICH” IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

The article describes adjectives that denote the concept of “rich” in Russian and English. This concept is quite actively and widely used in the languages under study. The high frequency of its use in speech communication makes it possible to classify it into the category of words included in the dictionary-the minimum of everyone who speaks these languages. In both languages, there are about 50 adjectives with the concept of “rich”, according to various dictionaries. When distinguishing the meanings of an adjective in combinations, the main thing is the lexical and semantic characteristic of the noun. That is, a more detailed semantic characteristic based on its belonging to a certain lexical series. This may include animate nouns, inanimate nouns, and names of various objects. Adjectives with this meaning are included in one semantic concept, have many synonymous variants, among which “rich” is the dominant one. There are many Russian parodies with the keyword “wealth”. There are not so many such parodies in English, so that the keyword is “rich”. In all cases of description, it is important to rely on the speech context, since the analyzed adjectives can appear in different meanings. The most numerous analyzed adjectives are in the colloquial style of both languages.