LEXICO-SEMANTIC GROUPS OF WORDS THAT CHARACTERIZE A PERSON IN RUSSIAN AND IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of lexical and semantic groups of words that characterize a person in Russian and English. It is noted that a comparative study of such a layer of these languages, which includes vocabulary characterizing the character of a person, helps to identify common and individual characteristics, describe the national image, mentality, ethical and moral norms in the culture of the Russian and English peoples. These groups of words that characterize a person by a variety of characteristics make up a fairly large volume in the studied languages. They are a set of a number of semantic associations that are grouped according to the similarity of certain semantic features. They break up into smaller groups and subgroups according to the components of semantic features within themselves. Each of these subgroups can be considered as a member of another, larger group. Lexico-semantic groups of words that define various properties, signs, character traits, appearance, as well as moral and ethical qualities of a person are widely represented in the languages studied. The listed lexico-semantic groups and subgroups turned out to be closely interrelated and interdependent with each other.