THE CONCEPTS OF FEAR AND SHAME IN RUSSIAN AND ARABIC LINGUISTIC CULTURES

Abstract

Each ethnic group is characterized by its original national picture of the world of language. This specificity is due to the unprecedented work of each ethnic group on the understanding, interpretation, categorization and emotive development of reality. In the Russian and Arabic language pictures of the world, such significant concepts associated with the emotional concept sphere include the concepts of fear and shame. In the Russian and Arabic language pictures of the world, the concept of fear can be represented by different semantic lines. The lexicographic analysis of the concept under consideration is based on the synonymous relations of the key, nuclear component: fear is a strong fear and a very strong fear. The main somatism that actualizes the emotion of fear through various phraseological images in both languages is the heart. The emotion of shame belongs to the category of ethics, to such cultural universals, which are characterized by a universal scale. Shame, as the most important value universal, is the main marker of the moral purity of the individual. In Russian and Arabic linguocultures, the situation of shame is portrayed as a loss of face, and it becomes such a marker.