“PATRIOTISM” IN THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

The article examines the identification and disclosure of the role of patriotism in the French and Russian language consciousness. The research is based on data obtained through a free associative experiment: a) conducting your own experiment among the representatives of the French linguistic and cultural community; b) studied the results of the Russian associative dictionary; с) a cross-cultural study by comparative analysis of the linguistic consciousness of French and Russian. The following results are revealed: for French society, the concept of patriotism is primarily associated with love for their country, culture and people. The French correlate patriotism with a sense of attachment and pride for the Motherland. In the Russian language consciousness, we observe the connection of the term patriotism with military themes. As the experiment shows, for Russians, patriotism is first of all a deep sense of loyalty and loyalty to their country, a desire and readiness to defend Russia. The theoretical significance of this work is to identify the General and specific in the images of the world of Russian and French. This will serve as a certain contribution to the further development of the theory of intercultural communication, and obtaining new information about the ethno-cultural features of the language consciousness of the peoples of the world.