The Opposition 'Body vs. Clothes' in Russian
This article is devoted to analyzing some aspects of the problem of relationship between a human body and its clothing as they are comprehended and verbalized in different spheres of Russian culture. The analysis carried out in this work shows that speakers of Russian view clothing as 1) a part, a continuation of the human body and 2) as its outer cover, a protective package. Human nudity is closely connected with clothing in Russian linguistic consciousness and perceived only in the context of a clothed body. The modern Russian language is characterized by active transference of clothing predicates to substantives of the sphere of the body: Russians tend to speak about a body in terms of clothing, i. e. using the tegimenological code.