Verbalization of the Concept “Daughter” in English and Russian Folklore Lyric Poetry

   The article deals with comparative analysis of the peculiarities of the verbalization of the concept “daughter” in English and Russian folklore lyric poetry. The research of folklore lyrics allows to comprehend many phenomena of a particular linguistic culture such as history, everyday life and national character of representatives of a particular linguistic and cultural community. It is possible to recreate the folklore picture of the world analysing the art world of oral poetry works. The analysis of folklore texts conducted with the help of descriptive, comparative, field as well as computer processing methods, indicates the presence of vocabulary that manifests the concept “daughter” in Russian and English folk songs. The analysis includes the frequency of lexemes, their syntagmatic relations in the text, the place of the chosen concept in the folklore picture of the world that is an art reflection of of a certain community’ mentality, its worldview. The analysis is supported by examples from contexts using vocabulary that explicates the concept. The authors identified the basic structure of the concept “daughter”, its general and specific characteristics inscribed by means of both languages as well as the attitude to the phenomenon designated by them in both the cultures. Special attention is paid to the interlanguage comparison of verbalization means of the concept as while comparing the units of different language, the linguistic pictures of the world are compared, the manifestation of specific features of the linguistic consciousness of different peoples is found and most importantly, common, universal features are revealed. The article concludes that there is an ethnic identity in the verbalization of the concept “daughter” in the languages of English and Russian folk songs. The authors present their findings in the form of lexico-semantic fields verbalizing the concept “daughter” in two languages.

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