REPRESENTATION OF EMOTIVES IN THE LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF ETHNOS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of studying the representation of emotives in the linguistic picture of the world. This paper presents relationship between the concepts of a picture of the world, a scientific picture of the world and a linguistic picture of the world. Language picture of the world is analyzed by the scientists. According to the scientists` point of view language picture of the world conveys essence and content of the thesaurus level in the concept of linguistic persona. It reflects national outlook and manifests itself in linguistic units of different levels. The naive-value picture of the world in its value orientations, which has been existed for a long time, regardless of specific economic and political conditions, based on ethnic predispositions and historical traditions, manifests itself in the feeling, reason and will of each individual member of society.  On the basis of a common language and upbringing it represents a part of the folk spiritual culture, which creates the ethno-mental space of the people in the given territory of its existence, etc.

The features of the Russian, Chinese and English language pictures of the world are described, which are manifested in the processes of reflecting the emotional state of a person, reality.

The authors of the article support the definition of the linguistic picture of the world as a set of holistic and systematized ideas about the world, which are based on the worldview of a certain human society. On the basis of this definition, the author examines the features of the concept of Joy in the linguistic consciousness of the Russian, Chinese and English ethnic groups. The core part of the concept is represented by linguistic units of a nominative nature, there are syntactically and phraseologically related linguistic units in the periphery.