COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WORD “HUMILITY” IN THE RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN LANGUAGES ON THE EXAMPLE OF A FRAGMENT OF THE PRAYER OF EPHRAIM THE SIRIN

Abstract

The article presents a comparative analysis of the semantic core of the word “humility” in European languages (English, French) and Russian. The author makes an attempt to consider the interpretation of this word in Russian dictionaries and explanatory European dictionaries. The relevance of this study is due to the growing interest of linguists and linguists in some words, the conceptual core of which is not identical in Russian and some European languages and is interpreted differently. The purpose of the study is to consider the interpretation of the word “humility” in different dictionaries. The author sets the task of trying to explain why Western and Eastern civilizations cannot always agree on some issues related to the attitude to problem situations that arise in Western and Eastern societies. An axiological approach to the word “humility” is taken, since it is declared and understood differently in European countries and in Russia. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt is made to explain the inner meaning of the word “humility” and to analyze how it is understood and used in naive everyday discourse by Europeans (using the example of English and French) and the Russian-speaking population. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the fact that the researcher has identified different lexical-semantic associative links of the given word in the studied languages.