SPECIFICITY OF THE FICTION CONCEPT “WEALTH” AS A WAY OF REPRESENTATION OF THE LINGUISTIC CULTURE (ON MATERIALS OF THE ENGLISH AND TATAR LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The article deals with the representation of the concept “wealth” in the Tatar and Anglo-American linguoculture, analyses the difference in the definition system and etymology of the words. The essence of the fiction concepts and its place in the linguistic picture in the world is described. Componential and content analysis of the concept held on the basis of the fiction literature allows revealing diverse and common features between two cultures and worldviews of the “wealth” as a part of the linguistic picture of the world. The result of the research is reflected in the conclusion that the Tatar and Anglo-American cultures equally frequently use the concept to describe material resources, profusion of objects and phenomena, money and other economically exchangeable property. Although the great difference in the presence of the “spiritual wealth” concept in the Tatar linguistic and its absence in the Anglo-American one is noted and disclosed. Existing differences are subsequently explained throughout the historical background of the Tatar, British and American