О русской Европе
On the Russian Europe
Author(s): Olga FrolovaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Culture and social structure , Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: concept; dictionaries; questionnaires; the National Russian Corpus; discourse; legal discourse; philosophical discourse; media; everyday discourse; exclusive and comprehensive point of view; oppositio
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the concept of Europe in Russian. Tah analysis is performed on the basis of dictionaries, the Russian National Corpus, the legal and philosophical discourse, media and everyday conversations. A scrutiny of dictionaries reveals the cultural component in the figurative understanding of the name of the continent. Questionnaires have shown that young Russian speakers associate Europe with economically developed Western countries: Germany, France, Britain, Italy. An analysis of the RNC shows that within the concept of Europe, originally the notion of “education” was formed, which then gave way to the notion of “culture”. Slavophiles and Westerners, in their philosophical discourse of the 19th c., formulated contrasting assessments of Europe, found in metaphors of Europe and Russia in the language of media and everyday usage.
Journal: Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka I Kultury
- Issue Year: 26/2014
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 57-85
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Russian