Resumen de Binary opposition “rich – poor” in russian, tatar and english linguocultures
Dinara I. Rahimova, Olga A. Chupryakova
The article analyzes one of the basic cultural and psychological oppositions forming cognitive value-evaluative system of knowledge, binary opposition богатый/бай/rich, бедный/ярлы/poor and its verbalization in Russian, Tatar and English conceptual spheres. The linguistic peculiarities of functioning of the coupled concepts богатый/rich and бедный/poor in linguistic consciousness of the Russians, the Tatars, the English have been investigated, which enabled to interrelate this antinomy in the Russian, Tatar and English languages, to extend knowledge about sociolinguistic nature of the development of linguistic consciousness of the representatives of different linguistic cultures and social communities. To achieve the objectives, general scientific methods of observation, generalization, modeling; concrete methods of component and contextological analysis, method of linguoculturological interpretation. The binary code богатые/the rich – бедные/the poor discovered a wide spectrum of lexical and semantic links that are conductive to the formation of semantic complexes or paradigms on the basis of synonymy, antonymy, periphrastic and associative concepts and images. It has been found that богатый/rich and бедный/poor are universal concepts in Russian, Tatar and English consciousness. Confirmation of it is the fact that each of them can be used in utterances as a basic element of judgment; each of them has the rows of language and contextual synonyms, moreover, they are comprehended in set expressions, phraseological units, proverbs and sayings.
