Language realia and the national picture of the world in the works of Ch. Dickens
The article concerns the questions of language anthropocentrism and provides a brief survey of a new branch in linguistics – linguocultural studies. The author of the article describes the process of cross-cultural communication and the problem of equivalence/non-equivalence. Language non-quivalent units, being chosen out of Ch. Dickens works, are divided into several groups according to the classification of A.O. Ivanov (the semantic gap; compound words; archaisms and poeticisms; deviations from the linguistic norm; associative gaps; realities). The study of various types of non-equivalent vocabulary in the works of the classics of English literature, Charles Dickens may lead to a better understanding of national linguistic world English XIX century. Author comes to the conclusion of the specificity and uniqueness of the national picture of the world, represented in works of art Charles Dickens.