GENDER FEATURES OF REPRESENTATION OF THE “JOY” PHENOMENON IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LINGUOCULTURES FROM THE POSITION OF COGNITIVE MODELING

Abstract

The article presents a problem of joy cognitive scenario, its linguistic and cultural features in a cross-cultural context: Russian and English identity. The study is carried out on the basis of classical fiction literature of the 19th century. Gender characteristics of the joy have been identified: for men, the priority areas are: relationships, career growth, power; while for women the basic reasons for joy are: family, love, home/life. As part of the study, an analysis of examples of fiction texts was carried out, where the cognitive scenario of joy was modeled, taking into account gender (a woman experiencing joy / a man experiencing joy). It has been established that the cognitive scenario of joy has both similarities and differences in the Russian and English linguistic cultures of the 19th century. The leading means of objectification of the cognitive scenario “a woman experiencing joy” have been identified: linguistic units nominating kinesthetic means of communication (Russian language), positively colored exclamatory-evaluative constructions (English); within the framework of the cognitive scenario “a man experiencing joy” in the Russian language, the leading ones are the linguistic units that nominate the means of tactile communication, in the English language – the units expressing the highest degree of manifestation of the trait.