What HAPPINESS is composed of

Abstract

The article investigates the semantic content of the Russian lexeme happiness and the German Glück. By means of the component analysis, the specifics of their semantics is explicated and the features of similarity and difference are revealed. The comparative study of their semic composition - cognitive and emotional constituents of happiness as the image of language cognition of the Russians and Germans is being carried out.

Keywords

• значение
• дефиниция
• компонентный анализ
• сема
• парадигматические ассоциаты
• когнитивная составляющая