The War Concept in Chinese Linguistic Culture
- Authors: Kalinin O.I.1,2,3, Ignatenko A.V.4
-
Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Military University
- South Ural State University
- RUDN University
- Issue: Vol 16, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 39-60
- Section: DISCOURSE STUDIES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2313-2299/article/view/323535
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2025-16-1-39-60
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/ODJLWM
- ID: 323535
Cite item
Full Text
Abstract
The general values and beliefs of society can be reflected through the attitude towards war. This work is devoted to the identification and analysis of linguistic and cultural concepts of war and their nature in the Chinese linguistic consciousness. Against the background of the foreign policy rapprochement between Russia and China, which stimulates mutual cultural and educational exchange and contacts in various fields, it seems important to consider the conceptual and axiological content of the concept frame WAR (战争) and its interpretation in Chinese linguoculture. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to consider the conceptual concepts of the socio-political phenomenon of war of Chinese cultural speakers in their linguistic consciousness. To achieve this goal, research tasks were consistently solved: the cultural and historical experience of understanding the phenomenon of war in the Chinese cultural tradition, in particular in Chinese philosophy and literature, was determined; the results of a definitional etymological analysis of lexemes representing the concept of WAR were presented; the results of previous studies of phraseological units with cultural and semantic components of the concept of WAR are summarized; the features of the representation of various military conflicts in the modern media discourse of the China are considered; the results of previously conducted associative experiments with the stimulus word “war” for representatives of Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures are interpreted; the data obtained are compared with the results of a study of intercultural variability in the perception of metaphorical models with the sphere of the goal is WAR. The analysis of attitudes towards war in the context of cultural parameters represented in the linguistic structures and speech practices of the people allows for a better understanding of the basic principles and values on which the mentality of various national cultures is based. In this regard, it seems relevant not only to identify the components of the WAR concept frame, but also, in particular, to study its various linguistic representations at various linguistic levels.
About the authors
Oleg I. Kalinin
Moscow State Linguistic University; Military University; South Ural State University
Email: okalinin.lingua@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1807-8370
SPIN-code: 7494-7512
Scopus Author ID: 57223031724
Dr.Sc. in Philology; Professor at the Chinese Language Department, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, Moscow State Linguistic University ; Associate Professor at the 36th Department, Institute of Foreign Languages, Military University); Senior Researcher of the Department of Scientific and Innovative Activity, South Ural State University
38, Ostozhenka str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 119034;3, Volochayevskaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 111033; 76, Lenina av., Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, 454080Alexander V. Ignatenko
RUDN University
Author for correspondence.
Email: ignatenko-av@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9261-4306
SPIN-code: 7534-3139
Scopus Author ID: 57223025263
ResearcherId: ABC-7865-2020
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology
6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198References
- Boldyrev, N.N. (2014). Cognitive semantics. Introduction to cognitive linguistics: a course of lectures. Tambov: TSU named after G.R. Derzhavin publ. (In Russ.). EDN: TZCWPV
- Kubryakova, E.S. (2002). On the Modern Understanding of the Term “Concept” in Linguistics and Cultural Studies. Reality, Language and Consciousness, (2), 5–15. (In Russ.).
- Karasik, V.I., & Slyshkin, G.G. (2005). Basic Characteristics of Linguistic and Cultural Concepts. Anthology of Concepts, (1), 13–15. (In Russ.). EDN: WDXMBX
- Stepanov, Yu.S. (1997). Constants. Dictionary of Russian Culture. Research experience. Moscow: School of Languages of Russian Culture. (In Russ.).
- Kalinin, O.I. (2020). The Intra-Cultural Variability of the Conceptual Metaphor with the Sphere-goal of WAR: Dependence on Professional and Personal Experience. Bulletin of Novosibirsk State University. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, 18(3), 103–117. (In Russ.). EDN: SBJNJK
- Flusberg, S.J., Matlock, T., & Thibodeau, P.H. (2018). War Metaphors in Public Discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2018.1407992
- Kalinin, O.I., & Gruzdev, D.Yu. (2020). WAR Lessons or how Social and Personal back-ground Shapes Our Perception. International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education, 8(2), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.5937/IJCRSEE2002001G083K
- Fomenko, I.B. (2021). The concept of WAR in the Russian and Chinese language pictures of the world. Philological Sciences. Questions of theory and practice of Philology. Theory & Practice, 14(3), 910–917. (In Russ.). EDN: GWDDPS
- Sun, Y., Kalinin, O.I., & Ignatenko, A.V. (2021). The use of metaphor power indices for the analysis of speech impact in political public speeches. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 25(1), 250–277. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-1-250-277 EDN: RWBBPY
- Leontovich, O.A., Kalinin, O.I., & Ignatenko, A.V. (2023). Metaphor power and language typology: Analysis of correlation on the material of the United Nations Declarations. Training, Language and Culture, 7(2), 21–29. https://doi.org/10.22363/2521-442X-2023-7-2-21-29 EDN: SGFLDE
- Kalinin, O.I. & Ignatenko, A.V. (2024). Metaphor power in the context of the author’s opinion expression and perception. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 28(1), 166–189. https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-34791 EDN: OJIFTH
- Ignatenko, A.V. (2022). Features of the Language Game in Liu Zhenyun’s Prose on the Example of the Novel “I am not Pan Jinlian”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 14(3), 507–523. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.308 EDN: ATGTTG
- Ignatenko, A.V., & Kondratova, T.I. (2022). Introduction to Chinese literature: from antiquity to the present day. Moscow: Publishing House VKN. (In Russ.). EDN: GPZTHS
- Ibragimova, V.L., & Wang, H. (2018). War as a phenomenon of socio-historical nature in the mirror of Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures. Bulletin of Bashkir University, 23(2), 522–531. (In Russ.). EDN: ZRFRFY
- Ignatenko, A.V. (2023). Features of Parenthetical Constructions in Mo Yan’s Novel “Tired of Being Born and Dying” (2005). Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 22(4), 115–126. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-4-115-126 EDN: CPYHRC
- Ignatenko, A.V. (2023). Emotive Suggestiveness in Contemporary Chinese Fictional Discourse: A Case Study of Yu Hua’s To Live (1992). Oriental Studies, 16(4), 1004–1014. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2023-68-4-1004-1014. EDN: YHKHVG
- Guruleva, T.L. (2017). Speech portrait of a Chinese language personality. Moscow: Information Technology Center. (In Russ.). EDN: YTLAOD
- Repnyakova, N.N., & Reshetneva, U.N. (2021). Lexical means of creating an image of war in Chinese phraseology. In: Folk culture of Siberia: Proceedings of the XXIX scientific and practical seminar of the Siberian Regional University Center for Folklor, T.G. Leonova (Ed.) (pp. 24–30). Omsk: Omsk State Pedagogical University publ. (In Russ.). EDN: XCRGGS
- Polonchuk, R.A. (2018). Military topics in the phraseology of the Chinese language. Philological sciences. Questions of theory and practice, 80(2–2), 361–363. (In Russ.). EDN: YODOIP
- Wang, X. (2018). Russian and Chinese phraseological units characterizing human behavior during military operations. Bulletin of the Bashkir University, 23(2), 468–472. (In Russ.). EDN: WODUYD
- Abdrakhimov, L.G., Radus, L.A., & Tkachuk, V.V. (2018). Military themes in Chinese proverbs and sayings. Chinese-Chinese thematic dictionary. Moscow: Publishing House VKN. (In Russ.). EDN: LSEONQ
- Kalinin, O.I. (2022). Corpus analysis of the linguistic representation of the special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in the Chinese media. Bulletin of the Moscow State Linguistic University. Humanities, 865(10), 41–47. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.52070/2542-2197_2022_10_865_41 EDN: GVIHES
- Kalinin, O.I., & Mavleev, R. (2019). The “War” Concept in Russian and Chinese Socio-Cultural Environment. In: “DICTUM — FACTUM: from Research to Policy Making: Proceedings of All-Russian Conference of Young Scientists (pp. 80–92). Sevastopol: Sevastopol State University publ. https://doi.org/10.32743/dictum-factum.2020.80-92 EDN: NBGJJJ
- Kövecses, Z. (2005). Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Lakoff, J., & Johnson, M. (2004). Metaphors That We Live By. Moscow: Editorial URSS. (In Russ.).
Supplementary files
