SECONDARY NOMINATIONS OF THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH IN THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES
The article examines secondary nominations representing the phenomenon of death in the Russian and Chinese languages. The sources of metaphorical expansion, which relate to the personalized, artifact, natural and space-time spheres, are revealed. The semantic opposition “life - death” is characterized, which divides the semantic space into two antonymic parts. The author establishes the differences of ideas about death in the Russian and Chinese discourses, due to the specifics of actualization of certain markers of death, as well as the peculiarities of world perception and worldview of speakers of two different languages.