THE CONCEPT OF “REPENTANCE” IN THE RUSSIAN AND WESTERN MAP OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article provides an analysis and interpretation of the concept of “repentance” that exists in the linguistic pictures of the world of the speakers of the Russian and Western European languages (English and French). The conceptual component of the concept content is considered. The relevance of the study is determined by the unflagging interest of cognitive scientists to the knowledge of the fundamental concepts of culture that determine the life order and vital activity of human society. It is shown that “repentance” in the West and in the Russian linguistic picture of the world is interpreted and understood in different ways. Various lexical and semantic associative links of this concept in the studied languages have been determined. Special attention is paid to the study of the concept of “repentance” in a comparative, linguistic aspect, through the prism of analyzing its representation in English and French, as well as in Russian. The axiological position of the concept of “repentance” is considered, since it is differently declared and implemented in the countries of the West (USA, France) and Russia. The article presents results of a comparative analysis of the everyday (naive-everyday) understanding of the concept of “repentance” in the Western and Russian picture of the world. The research material is lexicographic data extracted from explanatory and etymological dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms and encyclopedias.