Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Dec 2020)

IMAGE OF CATS IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE OMENS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

  • Gou, Ya.,
  • Korovina, S.G.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2020.24.4.2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 4 (24)
pp. 88 – 93

Abstract

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The Article is devoted to the description of the zoonym "cat" in the omens of unrelated languages. An idea is formed about the attitude to the cat in Russia and China from the point of view of religious and mythological perception of this pet, the structures of building dictionary entries in two languages are analyzed, semantic fields of the cat in Russian and Chinese are provided. The research material was the author's card index, consisting of 16 Chinese and 47 Russian omens, selected from lexicographic sources using the method of continuous sampling. The article describes signs and omens from the point of view of features of the content plan, and provides a comparative analysis of the Russian and Chinese omens to identify linguistic and cultural features. Conclusions are drawn about the historically formed ambivalent attitude to the cat in both countries.

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