REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT MOTHER ʻՄԱՅՐԻԿʼ IN RUSSIAN AND ARMENIAN LANGUAGES (ON THE MATERIAL OF TRANSLATIONS OF THE NOVEL “MOM, I LOVE YOU” BY W. SAROYAN)

Abstract

The article deals with the representation of the concept mother ʻմայրիկʼ (identified with the concept mother ʻմայրʼ) in the Russian and Armenian languages. The material for the study was the translation of the novel by W. Saroyan “Mom, I love you” from English. The focus of the work is on comparing the two translations in terms of context and peculiarities of the use of lexemes mama ʻմայրիկʼ / mother ʻմայրʼ. As a study task, the researchers analyze whether new meanings are introduced into the representation of this concept by translators who are native speakers of Russian and Armenian. The paper studies the means of implementing the concept mama, carried out a comparative analysis of the content and structure of the concept in the Russian and Armenian languages. The author substantiates the idea that the Armenian linguistic picture of the world is connected with the Russian one by a positive connotation of the image of an empathic, sensitive mother and a negative assessment of the image of a mother, a selfish woman who does not empathize with others. In both languages, the concept mother includes the concepts of beauty, care, strength, pity. The image of a young, emotional mother prevails in the Armenian language picture of the world. However, the image of a single mother in the worldview of the Armenian people receives more condemnation, which indicates intolerance to the destruction of family traditions. The proposed analysis of the representation of the concept mother can be applied in the study of the writer’s artistic system, as well as the linguistic picture of the world of the Russian and Armenian peoples, since these issues have not been sufficiently studied.