The article presents a linguacognitive and linguacultural study of the expression of admiration in English, Tajik, and Russian. Based on the work of contemporary cognitive linguists (Lakoff, Johnson, Vezhbitskaya, Kubryakova, Maslova, and others), It is shown that emotions, including the spiritual state of “admiration”, are manifested in language as a mental and cultural phenomenon. Using comparative analysis and semantic research of linguistic units related to beauty and emotions, collected from corpus data and authoritative dictionaries of English,Russian and Tajik languages, cultural and linguistic differences are revealed that influence the perception of beauty and awaken a sense of admiration. The results show that in English, beauty is expressed primarily as an individual aesthetic experience; in Tajik, it is associated with spirituality, love, sincerity and purity of heart; in Russian – with spirituality, wonder and sublime beauty. It is concluded that the expression of admiration is closely linked to the value system and worldview of the bearers of each culture, and the concept is realized through various lexical and metaphorical means. The study fills a gap in the study of aesthetic emotions in the Tajik language and offers a new approach to the linguistic and cognitive analysis of emotions.
culture, emotional words, concept “beauty”, admiration, aesthetics, Tajik language, English language, Russian language
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