Персонификация эмоций тоски в языковых картинах мира литовского и русского языком

ENThe present paper deals with the features of personification of sadness emotions in the worldview in Lithuanian and Russian. The analysis is subjected to the theory of cognitive metaphor. While analyzing the personification of sadness emotions state the attention is paid to the point that conceptual metaphors not only reveal the association of direct emotion state with something, but also describe the qualitative features of the emotions, i. e. intensity, passiveness, positive or negative evaluation of the emotional state, possibility to control; the emotion and if this emotional state is desired. The conclusion is drawn that in compared languages the emotional states of madness are conceptualized very differently. SADNESS - LORD controls the behavior of the subject. The person himself is not able to control his emotions or do this only partially. SADNESS - OPPONENT provokes the subject in order to deviate him from his usual state to make him lose his control of emotions. A number of intellectual characteristics are given to SADNESS - PERSON. Emotional states can reason, speak, play the musical instrument and sing, even provoke. Because of the destructive nature of activities very often SADNESS - PERSON is described only negatively.Such description of emotional state features is very common in the worldview of the Russian language. In the Lithuanian worldview sadness emotions mostly act by means of their intellect, resourcefulness and in the Russian worldview - physical power by means of instructive character tries to conquer the experiencer. Thus the latter emotional states arc a bit more intensive than in the worldview of Lithuanian. In the worldview of the Russian language much more negative features are given to the sadness emotions i. e. these emotional states in the Russian worldview are evaluated negatively more often than in the Lithuanian worldview.