Legal Values in Official and Unofficial Legal Discourse of Russia and China (Case Study of the Axiologeme "Historical Memory")

This article considers the specifics of the representation of legal values in Russian and Chinese official and unofficial legal discourse on the example of the axiologeme "historical memory". The purpose of the study is to determine the common and different in the representation of the axiologeme in question in the official and unofficial legal discourse of Russia and the People's Republic of China. The materials for the study are the texts of the Constitutions of Russia and China, as well as the answers of the test subjects received during the linguistic experiment. The selected texts of legislative acts of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China are analyzed using the method of conceptual analysis; in addition, methods of definitional-associative experiment and the method of comparative analysis are used. Two stages of the research are distinguished: first, the analysis of the content of the axiologeme "historical memory" in the texts of the constitutions of countries is carried out, then the answers obtained during the free associative and definitional experiment are considered, on the basis of which the specifics of the axiologeme representation is determined. The results of this study can be used in the field of legal linguistics, linguoculturology and linguoaxiology, as well as find application in lexicographic practice.