Skuka and Boredom as an Object of Contrastive Corpus Analysis

Student: Benkovich Elena

Supervisor: Andrei Botchkarev

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The current study offers a comparative corpus analysis of words: Rus. skuka and Eng. boredom. The research material is contexts from the National Corps of the Russian Language and the British National Corps of the English Language. The linguistic specificity of the analyzed words can be judged by a predisposition to a specific use, by the ability to certain rethinking and transformations, as well as by subject-conceptual relationships, confirmed by various use cases, and by a propositional model built on a lot of certified uses. This study allows you to partially reconstruct Russian and British language pictures, and also serves as a source of information for such branches of linguistics as intercultural communication and linguoculturology.

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