PROTOTIPICAL SITUATIONS OF BEHAVIOURAL RELATIONS IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

. The main content of the study is the analysis of prototypical situations in expressing the category of relations in Italian and English languages. The article analyzes prototypical situations, prototypical characteristics of the category of relations, its similarities and differences in the cultural spaces of non-related languages. The author introduces a concept of observer as a subject of perception and interpretation of behavioural actions (observerp and observerA) as a linguistic research tool. A comparative linguistic analysis on the materials of Italian and English languages shows connection between semiotics and axiology in behavioral relations. The expression of a complex of behavioral actions may have some specifics in national linguistic cultures. The result of the study of the prototypical structure of behavioral relations is creation of a basis for further research into the semiotics and axiology of the verbal expression of the category of relations for obtaining new linguistic data about the category of relations as a social-sign phenomenon in different linguistic and cultural spaces.