THE ESTIMATED FRAGMENTS OF THE SLAVIC LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE RUSSIAN AND POLISH ZOONYMOUS COMPARATIVE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS

Abstract

The authors analyze the meaning of the word Rodina, emphasizing the evolution of the meaning of the word in the Russian language in comparison with its perception by speakers of Slavic and non-Slavic languages. The authors pay attention to the generic affiliation of the studied linguistic unit in different languages. Special attention is paid to the grammatical gender of the lexeme: the feminine gender in Slavic languages contrasts with the masculine gender. Thus, in the consciousness of the Russian people, the word for Motherland refers, first of all, to a mother. The empirical results of a survey experiment conducted among international students on the subject of commonality/differentiation of understanding of the semantic components of the word Rodina, among representatives of non-Slavic languages are presented. This highlights the universality of the basic components with cultural nuances. The study analyzes the affiliation of the word Rodina in the native languages of foreign students to the gender and to the semantic meaning – father or mother. The authors conclude that the word Rodina correlates with a concept of the feminine gender, primarily in a cultural sense, which may indicate a common cognitive basis of association.