Concepts of insect parasites in the Russian and French language pictures of the world

Abstract

This article focuses on the study a person's worldview under the influence of their mother tongue and the culture it reflects. The article examines the notion of a picture of the world as a set of concepts, which includes a cultural and historical component and has an emotional colouring. The notion of the language picture of the world, which lies in the ethnospecific totality of human knowledge, imprinted by him in the language form, is also considered in close connection with the concept of the picture of the world. The article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of insect parasites: "flea", "louse", "bedbug" in the Russian and French language pictures of the world. While examining these concepts the author studies signifier of a lexical unit and ethno-cultural layers, without which a lexical unit is not conceived by native speakers. A special role in the analysis of the concepts "flea", "louse" and "bedbug" is played by phraseological units and proverbs containing these lexical units. Finally, there are conclusions about the similarities and differences in the perception of the studied concepts in the Russian and French language pictures of the world.