“CAUCASIAN MOUNTAIN MAN / SCOTTISH HIGHLANDER”: CORRELATION BETWEEN SEMANTICS AND CULTURE

Abstract

The research focuses on Russian and English concepts ‘Caucasian mountain man' and ‘Scottish Highlander'; The comparative-contrastive analysis of the vocabulary definitions of the concepts under consideration is conducted, which makes it possible to build the lexical-semantic fields of both lexical items in Russian and English. This stage of research helps to turn to the linguistic-cultural fields of these concepts construction. All collected data are systematized in schemes reflecting the linguocultural differences and common areas