FIGURATIVE AND SYMBOLIC CHARACTERISTICS OF NUMERALS ONE, TWO, THREE IN THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURES
Tsaturyan Marina Martirosovna, Pelipenko Lyubov' Mikhailovna
Kuban State University, Krasnodar
Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of cultural, symbolic and other characteristics of the numerals one, two, three peculiar to them in the process of the mythological stage of social development, which is preserved at the most in the texts of the traditional format and phraseology. The cognitive approach to the analysis of a number as one of the constants of the world culture, which is a logical and cultural phenomenon, allows revealing its conceptual characteristics as well as the peculiarities of the correlation between the language and the culture. The analysis and the identification of figurative characteristics associated with the interpretation of numbers, their national originality, demonstrate clearly how the symbolism is represented in the language and phraseological units of the analyzed linguocultures.
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