COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTION OF FACE AND ITS PARTS IN THE RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURES OF THE WORLD
Bogolepova Svetlana Viktorovna
Moscow State Regional University
Abstract. The definitions with the help of which Russian- and English-speaking people describe a human face and also its parts - eyes, nose, mouth, lips - were chosen from literary works and corpus sources. The definitions were classified, the qualitative and quantitative comparison of the obtained data for different languages and sources was carried out that allowed the authors making the conclusions about the specificity of world perception by Russian- and English-speaking people and also comparing the peculiarities of face description in literature and chats.
Key words and phrases: языковая картина мира, гипотеза Сепира-Уорфа, описание лица, ассоциативный тезаурус, language picture of the world, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, face description, associative thesaurus
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