COMPARING THE SEMANTIC FIELDS OF THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE CULINARY VERBS "TO BAKE" AND "TO STEAM"
Lyu Lifen
Center for Translation Studies of the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People's Republic of China
Abstract. The article focuses on comparing Russian and Chinese culinary verbs "печь/?" (to bake) , and "парить/?" (to steam). Having analyzed the semantic content of lexical units by the component analysis method the author identified that semantic fields of the Russian and Chinese culinary verbs generally coincide. Semantic field of Russian culinary verbs is much broader than the Chinese and some Chinese verbs have no analogues in the Russian language due to the cultural restrictions (lacunas) in both languages, especially in Russian. The research materials can be used when teaching Chinese to foreigners, in the Russian-Chinese bilateral translation, while compiling dictionaries, etc.
Key words and phrases: сопоставление, русско-китайские кулинарные термины, семантическое поле, разделение сем, "печь/?", "парить/?", comparison, Russian-Chinese culinary terms, semantic field, seme differentiation, печь/? (to bake), парить/? (to steam)
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