IDENTIFICATION OF THE OLDER AGE IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article reveals the problem of indicating older age in Russian and Chinese languages. Using the methods of component analysis, the statistical method reveals the structural features of the fragment “older age” of the lexical-semantic field “age” of the Russian and Chinese languages and carries out their comparative analysis. Explanatory dictionaries of the Russian and Chinese languages became the source of the vocabulary denoting older age; examples of the functioning of lexemes were extracted from the corpora of the studied languages. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that there is a common thing in Russian and Chinese designations of older age, which is manifested in the use of this vocabulary as references. Differences are manifested at the lexical and cultural levels and are due to differences in the historical, geographical, territorial and climatic features of the development of Russian and Chinese cultures, which determine the peculiarities of the worldview of their representatives. The results of the research can be used in the compilation of lexico-thematic dictionaries, in the lessons on RFL, in teaching Russian-Chinese and Chinese-Russian translation to translators.