MOTIVATIONAL MODELS WITH THE ZOONYM COMPONENT IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE FOLKLORE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the zoomorphic code of culture and language. The subject of our research is the zoomorphic code as one of the main means of expressing cultural senses, the object of research – motivational models of its realization in the Russian and Chinese folklore fund. The aim of this work is to compare the zoomorphic code of Chinese linguoculture with its analogue in Russian linguoculture. The main technique in the work is the method of motivational analysis, which involves an appeal to the semantics of the image of the character and the folklore-mythological motives expressed in the text. The results of the research show a higher variety and content of motivational models with the zoonym component in the Chinese folklore tradition compared to the Russian. In both linguocultures the zoomorphic code is supported by the anthropomorphic code. The sphere of application of the obtained results is linguoculturology, linguofolkloristics, ethnolinguistics.