WEDDING ASSOCIATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE

Abstract

The main goal of the research is to analyze the concept spheres of wedding presented in the Russian language. The theoretical significance of the study is in working out the theoretical basis of the specific language units study and the models for analytical work, in the description and generalization of the results of the analysis and the conclusions made. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that its materials and results can be used in further studies of semantic systems of languages, in works on cognitive linguistics, in bilingual lexicography and phraseography, as well as in the preparation of general and special courses in lexicology, phraseology, paremiology, cognitive linguistics, lexicography, linguodidactics, read in universities of the Republic in undergraduate and graduate courses. The novelty of the research consists in determining the corpus of lexico-semantic, phraseological and paremiological units of the Russian language, verbalizing the “wedding” concept, as well as in revealing its cognitive characteristics. The methods applied are comparative, seme and cognitive ones.