FRAME STRUCTURES OF THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN WORDS ENVIRONMENT AND СРЕДА: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

The article aims at comparing the frame structures of the English word environment and Russian word среда. To reveal the frame structure of the words that are often used as equivalents in translations, the article analyzes etymology, definitions and the context in which the words occur based on dictionaries and corpus data. It shows the functioning of frame propositional structures manifested in contexts through verbal means. This helps to demonstrate the similarities and differences in the frames’ structures and contents. The corpus analysis undertaken as part of this research shows deviations in the content of these frames containing mainly the same structures. The author comes to a conclusion that the deviations may be explained by the differences in prototypes that form the basis of the words’ meanings in Russian and English.