A STUDY OF COMPONENTS OF THE MICROCONCEPT “EXTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A WOMAN” IN THE TEXTS OF RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

Abstract

The relevance of the article stems from growing interest in problems of the national specifics of the language picture of the world. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the structure and content of the microconcept “еxternal сharacteristics of a woman” manifested in the texts of Russian fairy tales presented in the storage of a Russian collector of folklore A.N. Afanasyev. The objective of the work is to describe the structure and content of the microconcept “еxternal сharacteristics of a woman” as part of the ethnic mentality reflected in the texts of Russian folk tales. The article shows that Russian folk tales have a wide range of means of representation, reflecting typical female features created by the Russian ethnic group. First of all, this is reflected in the representation of the value layer of the concept, expressing the national-cultural understanding of the image of a woman in the Russian language picture of the world.