CURRENT TRENDS IN USING SYNESTHETIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING AND RUSSIAN-SPEAKING LINGUISTIC CULTURES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a phenomenon of synesthesia, the history of its study and its manifestation in the modern society. Considerable attention is paid to interpretation of this phenomenon by foreign and domestic scientists at various stages. The expediency of studying synesthesia within the framework of the linguocultural approach is substantiated. This approach will be of interest to specialists in various scientific fields – linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and others. In this regard, special attention is paid to disclosing concepts of a linguistic personality and the linguistic picture of the world. The main content of the study is an analysis of the current state of the issue on the example perceiving synesthetic constructions by representatives of English-speaking and Russian-speaking communities. As a research task, the author attempts to systematize the results of associative experiments conducted in order to identify similarities and differences in perceiving and using synesthetic constructions reflecting the core values of these communities’ representatives. The theoretical and practical significance of such experiments for future interdisciplinary research in this field is revealed.