EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF RAIN/ЖААН IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN AND KYRGYZ LANGUAGES THROUGH CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

This research focuses on a comparative analysis of the “rain” concept in Russian, English, and Kyrgyz languages through corpus linguistics. Attention is focused on identifying lexical-semantic features, frequency, and cultural specificity based on data from the Poetic Corpus of the Russian National Corpus, English COCA, and Kyrgyz poetry texts. The study shows that metaphorical models of intensity and emotional evaluation predominate in Russian and English, while in Kyrgyz, rain is more associated with natural cycles and folklore. Сontributed to cognitive linguistics by offering approaches for concept analysis using corpus methods to study the interaction between language, culture and the environment.