METAPHORICAL FUNCTIONS OF EXPRESSIVELY COLORED VOCABULARY NAMING PERSONS IN MODERN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

Abstract

Evaluative nouns with the meaning of a person are a special kind of nouns denoting persons. In Russian and Chinese, names are given to people with certain characteristics, at the same time the names express the subjective attitude of the speaker. In both languages, metaphor is the main technique for creating evaluative nouns with the meaning of a person, transforming words that name animals, plants, objects, cosmic phenomena, geographical objects, etc., into evaluative nouns with the meaning of a person. At the same time, people give more meaning to the terms of kinship and social relations. The goal is to compare metaphorical functions of expressively colored vocabulary with the meaning of a person in the Russian and Chinese languages, the tasks are set to consider similarities and differences in etymology, the amount of vocabulary, lexico-semantic types, usage patterns, etc.