COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE PHRASEOLOGY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE EMOTION “JOY”

Abstract

The research presents reflection on the emotional component in the national phraseology of Russia and China, since it is in the stable lexical combinations that the mentality of the people is most clearly expressed. As an example the researcher uses phraseological expressions reflecting the emotion “joy”, as well as synonyms and antonyms of this concept in the Chinese and Russian linguocultures. The main method of research is comparison. During the study of the mentioned linguistic material the significant difference in the understanding of the emotion “joy” in the mentioned languages was revealed, as well as in the ways of its linguistic expression on the example of phraseological expressions. So, in Russian joy is interpreted as a certain state of mind with the emphasis on its quality, and in Chinese – as the same, but taking into account the action: marriage, bearing and birth of a child, favorite occupation, thus in Chinese there are many similar words with similar meanings, unlike in Russian. The article shows formal difference between the Russian-Chinese stable combinations by the number of elements and the presence of variability, three groups of Russian-Chinese equivalents by degree of semantic identity (from absolute equivalents to relative equivalents) are distinguished.