Verbalisation of the concept МИР/PEACE in Russian and English world picures

The subject of the study is the lexical means of expressing the concept of "peace" in modern journalism. The authors analyze and compare the interpretations of the lexical units Peace and Mir in the corresponding languages to identify their differential features and correlation. The relevance of this topic is due to the interest of linguists in the conceptual approach, because it is the concept that represents the fundamental notion reflecting the perception of reality. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the component composition of the interpretations of the lexical units Mir and Peace in the Russian and English languages to identify the differences in understanding this unit by representatives of both nations. The authors studied the ways of verbalizing the concepts of MIR and PEACE in Russian and English, conducted and described an associative experiment and a comparison of the associations of native speakers of Russian and English with the concepts of peace and mir by representatives of Russia and Great Britain. The goals and objectives of this study determined the choice of research methods: theoretical analysis, generalization of scientific and selection of journalistic literature on the topic of the study, comparative approach, contextual analysis, construction of associative and semantic fields, analysis of journalistic texts, conducting an associative experiment and experimental and analytical work on the use of lexical means of expression by native speakers of Russian and English. The analysis of the Russian language indicates a greater tendency of speakers to value peace, ecology, planet, Universe and interpersonal relationships (friendship, love, family), which indicates a complex perception of the world and the galaxy, while the analysis of the English indicates greater pragmatism of the British, with the associates reflecting diplomatic and real measures to establish peace (negotiations, treaty) by representatives of the parties and countries and illustrating a more impartial, distanced worldview of the British: the associates are related to places associated with aggression during and after wars, geographical objects, the planet, which reflects greater distance, a “view from above” of English speakers, as if a chess player observes the board on which the pieces stand and calculates the variety of moves, which reflects the greater pragmatism of the British.