Authors’ names:
Irina S. Boldonova – Buryat State University named after D. Banzarov, Ulan-Ude, Russia
Abstract:
The article describes prerequisites for understanding the concepts of MOON and SUN in the Chinese and Russian worldviews in the context of intercultural communication. For Russian and Chinese linguistic personalities, the concepts of MOON and SUN invoke age-old cultural and historical traditions, which are different for the two cultures and may make it difficult to achieve full understanding. The research is based on hermeneutic methodology, and in the analysis the author uses such categories and concepts as pre-understanding, pre-opinions, prejudices, tradition, co-existence, and anticipation of perfection. The main method in this article is the hermeneutic circle as interpreted by F. Schleiermacher, M. Heidegger, and G.-H. Gadamer. The hermeneutic circle is used by the author to analyze the anticipatory movement of understanding and shared meaning in the intercultural dialogue between representatives of Russian and Chinese cultures. The purpose of the study is to reveal similarities and differences in the content of MOON and SUN concepts in the Chinese and Russian pictures of the world in a hermeneutic circle of understanding. The author analyzes the structure components of MOON and SUN in different verbal texts within the Russian and Chinese linguistic pictures of the world including dictionaries, folklore, colloquial discourse, and poetry. The main part contains two sections with the first section providing the analysis of the word, notion, and concept of SUN. The author demonstrates that, in Russian culture, SUN plays a more positive role in different types of verbal creativity, while, as the study detailed in the second section shows, MOON is a source of greater creative inspiration in Chinese culture. The author describes the similarities and differences in the content of MOON and SUN concepts and comes to the conclusion about the heuristic value of hermeneutic reflection, as a result of which participants of intercultural communication can come to openness to each other’s experience and a deeper comprehension of concepts’ existential characteristics.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-68-4-9-23 |
| Downloads | 81 |
| Key words | moon; sun; world picture; Russian culture; Chinese culture; hermeneutic circle |