Beautiful and interesting in the linguistic consciousness of Russians and Chinese
The article analyzes the actual semantics of adjectives beautiful and interesting as a result of collective linguistic consciousness. The evaluative adjectives beautiful and interesting have similar meanings in the system of the Russian language and they are represented in explanatory dictionaries through mutual identification. They are often used when describing appearance as synonyms in language practice, but their semantics are blurred and require specification. The study is comparative in nature and firstly, aims to identify similarities and differences in the meaning of these adjectives, which are noted by Russian participants of Internet forums; secondly, aims to clarify the ideas of Russian and Chinese students about the meaning of adjectives beautiful and interesting using the sociolinguistic method of questioning. Some culturally specific tendencies in the interpretation of the canons of beauty are revealed. It is proved that the images of a beautiful and interesting person do not coincide (first of all, in the Russian audience). The adjective beautiful correlates with the traditional aesthetic canon, whereas the adjective interesting is associated with a deviation from the canons of beauty.