ABOUT THE CONCEPT "LOVE" IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

The paper deals with the concept of love in the Russian and English language picture of the world, the attempt is made to reveal the national and cultural specifics of linguistic consciousness. The dictionary definitions of love are presented, which reflect the ideas about them in the "ordinary" consciousness, i.e. the way of their linguistic conceptualization. The analysis of such units has shown that the universal and national in the expressions of love in Russian and English languages is revealed in a set of signs reflecting the structure of this concept.