| Abstract [eng] |
The language in its integral links is related to human intelligence. It helps to restore the picture of the world of the human mind. The perception of the world, or the objective reality of things and effects that leaves the marks in speech, is so called the worldview of the language. Each language has its own perception of the world conected to the nation's history, geographic conditions, lifestyle, culture and so on. The worldview of the language is step by step composed by all who speak that language. Using the investigation method and analysing the usage of the words in texts helps to record and denote the features of the worldview of the language. The research materials are the Corpus of Lithuanian language – Donelaitis and the corpus of Russian language - ruscorpora.ru (национальный корпус русского языка). The data of the analysis of the concept darkness in both languages showed that prototypically darkness is understood in the same way in Lithuanian and Russian languages. The research of the samples was done to denote the most common figurative expressions and conceptual metaphors that are specific to the concepts of darkness in Lithuanian and Russian languages. The aim of the present master‘s thesis “ Darkness in the Lithuanian/Russian Worldview ” focuses on the analysis of theoretical issues of the term concept, and the empirical part focuses on the investigation of concepts of darkness as prototypical meanings (lack of light at night; lack of culture; lack of education) that are based on a number of figurative meanings. Metaphorical understanding of the concept of darkness in Lithuanian and Russian languages includes the following areas: 1) Death – the land of the dead, faded – out life; 2) darkness of glaciers, stiffing darkness; 3) fear - grisly, scary, nightmarish, eerie; 4) liquid –pouring, flushing; 5) scarf - surrounded, besieged; 6) an animal - devoured opened their mouths went into walls, 7) downward direction - falling, obliquely declining on Vilnius, drops suddenly, 8) pain - among the thistles of darkness, 9) a plant - among the thistles of darkness, darkness opened in the whitest lily flowers, 10) a human being – darkness went off headlong, darkness responded to Rebecca's voice, and others. Analysis of samples found in the corpus leads to the conclusion that the concept of darkness in Lithuanian and Russian languages is perceived very similarly. |
