The day-and-night scale representation in russian and spanish: culturally-bound features and modern tendencies

Popova Evgeniya A.

The article deals with the comparative analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of words and clichés, which represent parts of the day in Russian and Spanish. Common and culturally-bound features of such representation tend to be discovered on the basis of Russian and Spanish dictionaries and discourse. Modern tendencies of day division and types of asymmetry in the stated semantic area of the Russian and Spanish languages are reflected by means of intercultural research. Our attention is mainly focused on how words denoting parts of the day are actualized in precise time constructions and greeting clichés. The analysis is aimed at the prevention and overcoming of possible communication difficulties which Russian native speakers face when studying Spanish temporal vocabulary.

Keywords:parts of the day, greeting, cliché, dictionary meaning, actualization