Abstract
The present work explores the feeling of love in linguistic world pictures of different ethnic groups that comprise a single nation. The authors attempted to describe this feeling as a linguacultural space and define its aspects, both universal and nationally specific. The methodology of the research encompassed a comparative method, continuous sampling method, method of structural and semantic analysis and method of contextual analysis. The paper offers the analysis of paroemiological units in English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Scots languages. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of representation of the concept of Love were defined. Semantic structure of this word was revealed. There were described nationally specific features of representation of “man’s” matter when structuring Love within the framework of linguistic culture in the linguistic world picture. As the result of the study, a generalized scheme of the linguacultural space of Love is revealed at the level of a nation’s linguistic picture of the world, and the idioethnic one at the level of an individual ethnic group. Certain standards and stereotypes contained in this linguacultural space are distinguished as well.
Highlights
In the age of globalization, different ethnic groups converge rapidly
Love in a man’s picture of the world (MPW) of British people is represented by a diverse set of paroemiological units
It can be concluded that in the British linguistic picture of the world (LPW) this feeling is represented as a space: internal (IN emotional state) and external (EX 1 - behavior caused by feeling, EX 2 - behavioral reaction to the object of love)
Summary
In the age of globalization, different ethnic groups converge rapidly. Certain elements of various cultures gain global popularity. Love can be attributed to universal feelings, since, at the biological level, it springs up in a certain area of human brain. It is accompanied by a number of psychological processes and has its own mechanism of action, which is culturally universal. Being verbalized through a language, it acquires certain idioethnic features, which can be traced in a linguistic world picture of a single nation formed by several ethnic groups Such comparison will allow “removing” all idioethnic layers and reveal the core that is common and typical in the views and ideas that are “transmitted” by different linguistic cultures that make up a single nation
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