MARKERS OF NEGATION IN BA JIN’S NOVEL “FAMILY” AND IN ITS RUSSIAN TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article studies some ways of verbalising the category of negation in Chinese and Russian languages. Negation is a universal grammatical phenomenon reflected in the cognitive activity of representatives of different cultural groups. In view of the great frequency of the use of negative forms in the languages, the study of the grammatical category of negation has a certain practical significance in the linguistic field. The study of negation forms in fiction texts allows to better understand the character traits of heroes, their psychology and their way of thinking, as well as some linguistic peculiarities of national culture. The article provides a comparative analysis of the speech and behaviour of the representative character – “a rebel” in Ba Jin’s novel “Family” and in its Russian translation in order to deepen the understanding of cognitive psychology of representatives of different cultural communities described in the fiction text.