THE ORIGINALITY OF FABLES IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LINGUOCULTURES: A COMPARATIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The article studies the language picture of the world of children in Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures on the material of fables – one of the small genres of children’s folklore. Fables are considered as a significant source of information about the worldview, values, norms, habits and needs of children. The work reveals the image of the world, formed in the children’s mind under the influence of fables. The object of study is the features of the cognitive activity of children, the studied linguistic cultures, which are reflected in fables. The subject of the study is the content (semantic) features and ways of creating fables, due to the laws of children’s cognitive activity and their belonging to different linguistic cultures. During a phased analysis of fable texts, their classification is presented, the types of fiction were described, the semantic features of fables are characterized, and the propositional organization of their content is shown. This made it possible to identify the ways of world modeling reflected in the semantic content of Russian and Chinese fables, and to reveal their cognitive potential, which is distinguished by national specifics.