Symbolic signs of the concept "star" in the Chinese language picture of the world

Ma Jiaqi

In this article the author examines the features of objectification of symbolic features of the concept "Star" in the Chinese language picture of the world. In the course of the research the methods of conceptual linguocultural analysis are used. Linguistic symbols have archetypal nature. They unite different plans of reality into a single whole in the process of semantic activity in this or that culture. Symbols have a rich spectrum of reproducibility in both oral and written speech and virtually endless boundaries of semantic interpretation. The prospect of seeing a symbol in context turns on the breadth of semantic variation, on the basis of a large phraseological dictionary of the Chinese language, as well as dictionaries of symbols are analyzed conceptual metaphors that verbalize symbolic features characteristic of the Chinese conceptual system: "Advantage", "Destiny", "Multiplicity".

Keywords:star, language picture of the world, concept, linguoculture, symbolic attributes of the concept.