Conceptual metaphor of brotherhood in Chinese and Russian languages: specifics of formation and function.

Abstract

In traditional Chinese culture, "brotherhood" refers to the deep affection and mutual support between brothers, which is regarded as one of the vital moral characters. Metaphor, as a linguistic phenomenon, arises from experience, which comes from the inheritance and development of the social culture and can reflect people's values, beliefs and attitudes to a large extent. This article makes a detailed study of the conceptual metaphor of brotherhood in Chinese and tries to learn the cultural connotation of the target language by understanding the metaphor through the cultural transmission of the conceptual metaphor, from which the similarities and specificities of Russian and Chinese cognition and cultural concepts can be explored.