AXIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE STABLE WORD COMBINATIONS AND PROVERBS

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the article is to reveal the cultural connotation and axiological characteristics of the concepts "left" and "right", which make up one of the universal binary oppositions, in Russian and Chinese stable word combinations and paremias in order to determine the differences between the Russian and Chinese language worldviews in the cognitive zone of the presence of these concepts. The object of the research is Russian and Chinese phraseological units with the key words left and right. The subject of the study is the determination of common and distinctive features in the perception of traditional views and habits by Chinese and Russians regarding the use of the above-mentioned concepts in their national language worldviews. The procedures of semantic, connotative, phraseological, linguocultural, conceptual, cognitive, comparative and quantitative analysis, as well as the descriptive method, were used in the research process. The results of the study were the identification of 74 Russian and 62 Chinese phraseological units with different structures, containing indicators of the concepts "left" and "right". They are classified according to their discursive meaning, sphere of functioning, and axiological characteristics. A comparative analysis of the linguocultural principles of their use in the Russian and Chinese languages was carried out. Conclusions are made regarding the asymmetry of the traditional perception and functioning of the conceptual meanings of left and right in the compared languages.