ETHNOSTEREOTYPING OF THE CATEGORY OF ANIMATENESS-INANIMATENESS IN LANGUAGES WITH DIFFERENT STRUCTURES

The anthropocentric paradigm of modern linguistics makes it relevant to study the linguocultural features of the linguistic explication of the category of animateness-inanimateness, based on the classification of objects in the surrounding world through parallels with humans. The comparative analysis of the material of three differently structured Kabardino-Circassian, Russian and English languages is aimed at revealing the ethnocultural features of the representation in the language of the connotation of living and nonliving things. The results of the study revealed, that in English linguistic culture animateness-inanimateness is manifested through the use of the third person pronouns he, she, it, while in Russian linguistic culture pronouns on (he) and ona (she) can be applied to both animate and inanimate nouns. At the same time, the Kabardino-Circassian language separates the class of a human and everything else, and pronoun ar, corresponding to Russian and English third person personal pronouns (on, ona, ono, he, she, it) does not project either animateness-inanimateness or gender. A comparative study of differently structured languages reveals an alternative conceptualization of the surrounding reality, and also unveils the features of each language that can remain undisclosed during the autonomous study of individual languages.