VITAL SIGNS IN THE STRUCTURES OF THE RUSSIAN CONCEPT “ДУША” AND THE КАZAKH CONCEPT “ЖАН”

Abstract

The paper discusses the vital signs of the Russian and the Kazakh concepts душа and жан. Both similarities and substantial differences revealed in the structures of the studied concepts, examples of their implementation are presented from the materials of the Russian National Corpus and the works of Kazakh authors.

Keywords

• concept, metaphor, linguistic consciousness, vital sign, conceptual structure