LINGUISTIC-CULTUROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN PAREMIAS, VERBALIZING THE OPPOSITION “GREED-GENEROSITY” (IN CONTRAST WITH CHINESE)

Abstract

The work presents a linguistic-culturological study of Russian paremias, verbalizing the opposition “greed-generosity” in contrast with Chinese. The study of Russian paremiological units about greed and generosity against the background of the Chinese language makes it possible to present the linguistic-culturological characteristics of the studied units, and also allows to identify the similarities and differences of national ideas about morality in Russian and Chinese linguistic picture of the world. In this work, an attempt is made to describe, analyze and systematize the Russian paremias, illustrating the view of the moral values of the native speakers of the Russian language and the Chinese language. As a result of the study, the semantic and linguistic-culturological features of the selected paremias are established, their differential features included in this group are highlighted, and some specific observations and conclusions regarding their functioning in speech are considered and analyzed. The developed materials can serve as prerequisites for creating a bilingual linguistic-culturological dictionary of paremias, and can also be used when reading special courses on cultural linguistics, phraseology and intercultural communication, as well as in the practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language.