Author’s name:
Regina N. Sirazetdinova – Sterlitamak Branch of Ufa University of Science and Technology, Sterlitamak, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia
Abstract:
In the theoretical part of the study, the author discusses the notions of “a concept” and “the linguistic picture of the world,” gives lexicographic definitions of the concepts “family” and “family values,” and provides working interpretations of these definitions. The practical part of the research presents the results of a study of how the concept “happiness” is verbalized in the lexeme “family” in monological and dialogical statements of characters from modern American animated films, in order to identify family values of the American society. The study shows that American family values include the following indicators: the value of being, the value of property, the value of desire and necessity, the value of a single whole, the value of approval and acceptance, the value of sympathy and affection, the value of importance, the value of friendship, and the value of pastime. The article includes a statistical analysis of examples containing the verbalization of the concept of “happiness” in the lexeme “family,” where the largest number of units are related to the value of family as a phenomenon of being; one step lower are the values of family as a phenomenon of property; then follow the values of family as an object of desire, loss, longing and necessity; slightly fewer examples refer to the value of family as a whole while the same number of examples reflect the value of family as a phenomenon of approval and acceptance and feelings of deep sympathy and affection; the smallest number of examples refer to the value of family as a phenomenon of importance, the phenomenon of friendship, and the phenomenon of pastime.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2023-63-3-105-115 |
| Downloads | 161 |
| Key words | concept; happiness; family; values; verbalization; animated films |