The “War” Concept in Russian and Chinese Socio-Cultural Environment

The main idea of the article is to analyze the concept of war in Russian and Chinese sociocultures, combining methods of linguo-cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches. The concept of war, on the one hand, is studied in terms of its linguistic manifestation with the help of cognitive-definitive analysis, and on the other hand, we attempt to examine the perception of this concept in the native speakers consciousness via psycholinguistic experiment. This technique allows us to consider the language manifestation of the studied concept, that is, to draw a conclusion about the linguistic worldview, and at the same time compare the main features of the “war” concept with the idea of a war in the minds of native speakers, that is, to draw a conclusion about the cognitive worldview. Studying the “war” concept allows us to fully understand the attitude of different peoples towards life, death and the principles of historical development. The study showed that the attitude of Russian and Chinese native speakers to the issues of war and peace is quite different: for Chinese culture, the dominant is materialistic consequences from the warfare and the image of the enemy, and for the Russian – the spiritual sufferings that war brings and the idea of the war as a craft.