COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT “HAPPINESS” IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LINGUOCULTURE (BASED ON THE DEFINITIONS IN CHINESE AND RUSSIAN DICTIONARIES)

Liu Chaojie, Liu Zhen

DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-6-73-76

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Liu Chaojie, South Ural State University (pr. Lenina, 76, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, 454080). Zhejiang Ocean University (Zhoushan, China, 316022). E-mail: liuwillam666888@mail.ru Liu Zhen, Shang Qiu Foreign Language Middle School (Shangqiu city, Henan Province, China).

The article is based on the fact that lexicographic materials reflect the features of concept both in diachrony and in synchrony. The dictionaries with the initial capacity of lexicographic materials provide people with the opportunities to see the semantic and derivational efficiency of the concept and its segments in full, because the lexical meanings fixed in the dictionary for a long period are what people have in mind when they use the word to communicate in a wide variety of circumstances. Happiness is one of the most important categories of consciousness, through which a national conceptual picture of the world is built, recognized and widely spread. In this article, we use the comparative analysis method to disclose different concepts of happiness from the root in the Chinese language and the Russian language. It is concluded that such values as, for example, predestination and inevitability, out of control and volatility, success, high degree of happiness, pleasure, and satisfaction are characteristic of both languages, while the definitions of „a part of life”, „get out of trouble”, „be saved from trouble (calamity)”, „pray for happiness”, and „perfect expectations” are peculiar only to the Chinese language, and the „fate”, „prosperity” „earthly bliss”, „share” and „good fortune” – exclusively to the Russian language.

Keywords: semantic and derivational productivity, lexical meaning recorded in the dictionary, destiny, national conceptual picture of the world, comparative analysis method

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Issue: 6, 2018

Series of issue: Issue 6

Rubric: COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE RESEARCH IN MODERN LINGUISTICS

Pages: 73 — 76

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