REPRESENTATION AND VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “WOMAN” WITH A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION IN THE RUSSIAN-PERSIAN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

This study is devoted to the representation of the concept “woman” in its negative aspect among peoples of different cultures, confessions and languages, particularly, in a comparative Russian-Persian analysis. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that in recent decades the role of women in the political, cultural, religious and economic spheres has become increasingly important. The methodological basis of the present study were the works of leading linguists of Persian and Russian folklore, as well as linguistic units selected by continuous sampling from paremiological dictionaries and corpora of compared languages. The objectives of this study include the analysis of the features of phraseological units used in the linguistic picture of the world of the Russian and Persian peoples. Linguistic and cultural comparative analysis of phraseological units shows that women in both Russian and Persian linguistic cultures are negatively characterized by the presence of such negative qualities as stupidity, talkativeness, weakness, deceit, cunning, jealousy, dependence on the male sex, wastefulness, etc. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that it presents an analysis of the concept “woman” with a negative connotation using analytical-descriptive and analytical-thematic approaches, and the results of the study can be further reflected in linguocultural analyzes and can also be applied in compiling Russian-Persian dictionaries of proverbs and sayings.