Ethnocultural specificity of the words-numerals in Russian and Chinese

Authors
  • Pilyugina N.Yu.

    Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
    Vladivostok. Russia

  • Meng Weiwei

    Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
    Vladivostok. Russia

Abstract

The article is written in the framework of ethnic-linguistic direction of contemporary linguistic. In the center of the research - ethnocultural specificity of the words-numerals, which is found in the perception of Russian and Chinese speakers. The analysis are based on the results of the  associative experiment, the questionnaire Russians and Chinese and the  case study of Russian and Chinese proverbs.

Keywords: etnic-linguistic, ethnocultural specificity of the word, numerals, proverbs, precedent text, associations, associative experiment.