WAYS TO REPRESENT PROHIBITION SEMANTICS IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN
The article discusses the linguistic manifestation of prohibition semantics in English and Russian and analyzes the means of expressing grammatical and lexical units representing this value in a comparative aspect. The study uses comparative, descriptive methods; functional and semantic, communicative and pragmatic approaches. As a result of the study, the authors described the means of expressing prohibition meaning in Russian, compared the data of the English and Russian languages. The material confirms the universality of the transmission of this value by indicators of the negative imperative which is confirmed by the data of typologically different languages. It is established that the expression of soft prohibition by the subjunctive mood indicators, which is inherent in the English language, is not characteristic of the Russian language. The results of the study will be in demand in comparative studies, in the methodology of teaching English and Russian