CONCEPT “TEMPTATION” IN THE RUSSIAN LINGUISTIC WORLD VIEW (STUDY OF ITS NOTIONAL PART WITHIN CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR ETHICS)

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of the concept “Temptation” that is based on the study of the components of meaning of the word temptation, which is its notional part. The components of meaning of this word are revealed on the material from dictionaries containing definitions and synonyms by using the method of component analysis. The researcher analyzes contexts from the National Corpus of the Russian Language for distinguishing those components of meaning that are not included into modern dictionaries. All the revealed meanings and their components are analyzed in two ways. On the one hand, they are investigated diachronically, from the point of view of their usage in modern Russian. On the other, the concept represented by the word temptation is compared within two spheres of linguistic world view – the secular and religious ones. Conclusions are drawn on secular and religious (Christian) understanding of temptation in Russian linguistic world view based on the material from the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The value of corpus-based linguistics during investigations of this kind is underlined.