National and cultural semantics of Russian realia in the mirror of Brazilian culture (based on the translation of Dario Moreira Castro Alves into Portuguese)

Danilova Vasilisa

Comparative linguistic and regional studies, which arose at the connection of language and culture, explores the non-coinciding (national) elements of both languages and both cultures, where the complex of coinciding and diverging units, as practice shows, will be different, although self-knowledge of reality, obviously, has a universal human character without any national restrictions. The subject of comparative linguistic and cultural research in our work is the realia of the Russian language and the lexemes that translate these realia into the Portuguese translation of the novel "Eugene Onegin". The purpose of our study is to identify the mismatched national and cultural elements of both languages and both cultures, which demonstrate differences in understanding and interpretation of culturally significant information by native speakers of Russian and Portuguese. Our main task is to study and describe the distinctive features of the expression of cognitive-semantic information in linguistic pictures or images of the world at the level of lexical-semantic relations.

Keywords:realia, linguistic and regional studies, comparative analysis, national-cultural semantics, Portuguese language