SOMATIC CONCEPTS IN AN ETHNIC PORTRAIT OF A RUSSIAN AND AN ENGLISHMAN

Abstract

The article analyzes an ethnic portrait in the picture of the world of the Russian and the English speakers. Although there are works devoted to this issue, nevertheless, it is relevant in modern discourse, since interpersonal relationships are based on the understanding of the world picture by one or another native speaker. An ethnic portrait in the Russian and English worldview is a kind of reflection of the mentality of speakers of these two languages. Such portrait may contain the reference qualities of a Russian person and an Englishman. The analysis of an ethnic portrait of a Russian and Englishman has led to the following conclusions: the ethnic portrait of native speakers of Russian and English languages consists most vividly of such somatic names as eyes, face, hair; and the concepts of beard, eyebrows, mustache are noted in episodic cases; these concepts contribute to the fullest disclosure of the characteristic features of Russian and English mentality; they can be seen in the characters of folklore and oral speech of native speakers of the languages in question; With the help of these concepts, it is possible to best characterize the Russian and the English; speakers of both languages have common and different understanding of the worldview. The importance of stable combinations with the analyzed concepts in the languages under consideration makes it possible to distribute them into the following groups: the emotional state of a person, the character of a person, the surrounding world of a person, actions and behavior. The differences noted are due to the historical and cultural characteristics of these countries.