NON-EQUIVALENT VOCABULARY AS A SUBJECT OF LINGUACULTURAL ANALYSIS

The article is devoted to the linguacultural analysis of non-equivalent vocabulary as a linguacultural unit. The work examines the concept of non-equivalent vocabulary from various points of view, analyzes the diversity of definitions of this concept. The authors believe that there is no definition of non-equivalent vocabulary that would satisfy all researchers. Therefore, there is no clarity in the classification of this extensive and complex group of words, its boundaries are not clearly defined. The work adopts the classification of E.M. Vereshchagin and V.G. Kostomarov, according to which non-equivalent vocabulary includes designations of phenomena specific to a given culture, which are a product of the cumulative (accumulative) function of language and can be considered as repositories of background knowledge. In the practical part, a linguacultural analysis of non-equivalent vocabulary is carried out based on the semiotic model of C. Morris. According to this model, the consideration of non-equivalent vocabulary as a linguacultural unit is possible from the position of semiotics within the framework of four aspects of study that affect almost all levels of language: syntactics and sigmatics, semantics and pragmatics.