„ЗАВИСТЬ“ В ПОЭТИЧЕСКИХ И ПРОЗАИЧЕСКИХ ТЕКСТАХ РУССКОГО, АНГЛИЙСКОГО И СЛОВАЦКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ

The article deals with verbalization of emotion „envy” on the material of Russian, English and Slovak languages that allows us to determine the specifics of functioning the emotion under investigation in different types of texts. The authors make an attempt of a comprehensive conceptual analysis of the objectification of emotion envy as the fragment of the national linguistic worldview in languages with different structures: Slavic languages in comparison with a Germanic language, and to establish some specific features of emotional worldviews in the studied linguistic cultures. The study and the description of emotions are in the centre of the interests of anthropological linguistics because reflecting separate fragments of the linguistic worldview helps to show the nations’ mentalities through the language. The issue of universality, on the one hand and cultural identity of emotions on the other hand, is one of the leading topics of the discussion in the mainstream of contemporary linguistics. The article shows that study of emotions as an element of ethnic identity of an individual speaker and a group of people contributes to a better understanding of cultural peculiarities in Russian, English and Slovak worldviews.