Сoncept of "beauty" in english and russian languages
Concept - a mental formation, which possesses a specific cultural value, and represents elements of the world for people in the course of communication. The reasons for the lack of ethical evaluations of "beauty" in the Russian language-based concept.
| Рубрика | Иностранные языки и языкознание |
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| Язык | английский |
| Дата добавления | 16.10.2015 |
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Concept can be understood as a mental formation, which possesses a specific cultural value, and represents elements of the world for people in the course of communication. The study of concepts is important because it helps us identify the culturally specific world view of a certain lingual-cultural community. It also allows us to understand the word (as a lexical unit) in the context of culture, cognition, and communication.
"Beauty” is one of the key concepts in a culture, which has an existential significance both for an individual person and for a lingual-cultural community. The concept "beauty" can be found in every ethnic culture, its existence is universal. However, the conceptual representation of beauty relies on local, national, cultural, and historical traditions, and the religious beliefs of ethnic groups.
The aim is to compare and describe the concept of beauty in English and Russian.
To determine the conceptual aspects of the term beauty in the Russian language we studied explanatory articles of several entries in the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language by Ozhegov, Dahl. The articles in dictionaries showed that the main meanings expressed by the concept are:
- a characteristic feature, ornament, delight;
- something that gives pleasure and joy to the senses (vision, hearing) or mind; сoncept language cultural
- an abstract notion;
- attractiveness due to pleasant appearance or inner world.
These characteristics are the conceptual core of the concept "beauty" in Russian.
In Russian language "beauty" is defined as harmony, a kind of feature that causes a person to experience positive emotions, satisfying the aesthetic needs of the person.
In our view, the results of the survey indicate that the conceptual meanings comprising the concept can be divided into 3 groups according to their relation to the core component:
1) those that specify the features contained in the conceptual core, detected by the analysis of dictionary definitions (referring to the nature or works of art that delight the senses and the mind);
2) those that coincide with the nuclear conceptual features - something that satisfies the aesthetic needs of a human, brings delight and pleasure;
3) those that comprise new conceptual features such as harmony, certain perceptions of the world, perfection, or ideal happiness.
In English the concept of "beauty” is determined as:
1) the combination of qualities that give pleasure and joy to the senses (vision and hearing) and mind;
2) as a set of qualities glorifying the soul;
3) as an especially good feature;
4) as an elegant, superb quality.
Such meanings of beauty as proportion, symmetry, beauty spot meaning a mole, beauty shop meaning a beauty salon make up the periphery of the conceptual core of the concept "beauty", as they do not occur that often.
Сonceptual core of the concept “beauty” in Russian and English match themselves on the grounds of the properties and qualities that bring delight to a person. However, it should be noted that the “internal” beauty, representing the inner, spiritual nature of a person is expressed more clearly in the conceptual core of the English concept and is accompanied by ethical evaluation (glorifying the soul).
Also in the conceptual core of the term expressed in English there is a sign of this phenomenon`s ethical evaluation intensity (an especially good feature), which is absent in the conceptual core of the Russian concept. Peripherals and the far periphery of the conceptual aspect of long-range concepts of “beauty” did not match.
The far periphery of the conceptual aspect of the Russian concept is richer than the far periphery of the English concept, indicating a diffuse structure of the conceptual aspect of the Russian concept “beauty”.
In the Russian language "beauty” is personified as
1) a foe, causing nuisance, leading people to crime;
2) a beautiful thing that is bought and sold;
3) a living creature that emits gentle heat;
4) a living active substance that can save the world;
5) a deity, which requires certain sacrifices;
6) a human spiritual need and it is compared with food, without which man would perish etc.
In English there are the following types of visual images of beauty:
1) an illusion;
2) the result of hard careful work, great effort;
3) a political idea and emerging standards of beauty - as being imposed by some power outside the individual.
So the concept "beauty" has following features:
1) in the Russian language the updated metaphors that represent beauty are used in both negative and positive ways: beauty as the sphere of the living, the sacred - a living creature, flower, savior, god, spiritual food, hiding place, treasure, bright light and as the sphere of the evil - power, money;
2) the concept "beauty" in English is metaphorically realized without being marked axiologically (not including evaluations) - effort, work, sports.
Further, in general, in the linguistic consciousness of Russian and English speakers, beauty is associated with the assets belonging to the spiritual, moral, personal and social spheres, in English - it is associated more with the values from the emotional sphere; in Russian - with the spiritual, aesthetic, age and gender values.
In today's Russian community beauty is also compared with uniqueness. In the sphere of individual views, beauty in the context of Russian and English matched only aesthetic values and vital areas (nature, earth, life). Associations with the values of society and gender (something sexy) and socio-aesthetic (i.e. "glamorous") were specifically Russian ones, while associations with the spiritual and sacred values turned out to be specifically British.
To summarize above-mentioned, we agree with A. Gumboldt who stated that different languages are different world views and alongside they are different concepts, which reflect the peculiar world view in the language.
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