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VIEWS OF THE WORLD OF THE TWO SLAVIC NATIONS IN THE FOCUS OF THE "RUSSIAN-BULGARIAN DICTIONARY OF QUASI-SYMBOLS"

Author: Abramova V.I., Arkhangelskaya Ju.V., Georgieva S.I.

The article highlights the peculiarities of the "Russian-Bulgarian dictionary of quasi-symbols" issued in 2021which is the first publication of the kind. The dictionary was created by the team of scientists from Russia and Bulgaria. The Russian part of the dictionary was collected and described by the specialists in philology from Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University. Bulgarian co-authors were the linguists from Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. The aim of the publication is to present the complex description of word symbols (quasi-symbols) of the Russian and Bulgarian cultures. The dictionary contains 416 units included in the antropomorphic, animistic, actional, biomorphic, fetish, food, dimensional, time, color, religious, numeric and other linguocultural codes and presented in the three main parts. The first part simultaneously gives the quasi-symbols that are presented in both linguocultures: the left part of the page contains explanation of the Russian unit, the right part presents the Bulgarian one. Most of the word symbols are of this kind. The second part contains the description of the Russian quasi-symbols with no Bulgarian equivalents. The third part gives the explanation of the Bulgarian lingual symbols with no equivalents in the Russian worldview. Therefore, the dictionary in whole clarifies the universal and the nationally specific in the symbolism of the two Slavic cultures, specifically - the first part is based on the differentiation of the linguocultural characteristics of the quasi-symbols conditioned by the cultural paradigms in the Russian and Bulgarian lingual views of the world; the second and the third part of the dictionary include the substantial layer of the linguocultural information which is described from the point of view of the lacunarity of the collected units. On the one hand the dictionary demonstrates the contiguity of the Russian and the Bulgarian people, their languages and mentalities, on the other hand it allows to see the significant differences that are outlined in the article through several examples and are explained by extraliguistic factors. Comparative analysis of the mental paradigms of the two cultures verbalized by the quasi-symbols is furnished with the detailed linguocultural commentary. The authors of the article, being among the compilers of the dictionary, point out that the described publication may be interesting for the philologists, culturologists, historians, sociologists, as well as for the wide range of readers.