THE PERCEPTION OF TOWN BY RUSSIAN AND CHINESE SPEAKERS
The migration of the youth from rural areas to big cities is one of the biggest global problems nowadays. The article deals with similarities and differences in town perception by young people aged 18 to 26, who belong to different cultures (Russian and Chinese). As a result, specific socio-cultural factors and differences in town perception among the youth are revealed, the ways of axiological conceptualization of the city by the representatives of the two cultures are distinguished and, as a result, the causes of the undergoing territorial and social transformations are identified, which allows predicting the prospects of town development in future.
Keywords: the image of town, free associative experiment, concept, values, Russian and Chinese lingvocultures
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Issue: 7, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE LINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL LINGUISTICS
Pages: 59 — 64
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