Linguistic and cultural features of assessing a person’s appearance in Arabic and Russian

 
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Abstract

The article examines the phraseological units of the Arabic and Russian languages, reflecting the assessment of a person's appearance. The analysis of the linguistic material allows us to conclude that the national and cultural specifics of the perception of a person's appearance are most clearly manifested in phraseological units characterizing the portrait features of the face, as well as the proportions of the body. Universal images containing an assessment of appearance, as well as specific representations and stereotypes related to the subject, plant, zoonymic, religious, etc. are revealed. cultural codes that reflect the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the assessment of a person's appearance by native speakers of these languages.

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Keywords: phraseological units, linguoculturology, linguistic worldview, Arabic, Russian, cultural code

Journal rubric: General and Comparative Historical Linguistics

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2025120202

Received 15.05.2025

Revised 28.05.2025

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For citation: Gasanova, S.N., Magomedova, S.N. (2025). Linguistic and cultural features of assessing a person’s appearance in Arabic and Russian. Language and Text, 12(2), 22–32. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2025120202

© Gasanova S.N., Magomedova S.N., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Salminat N. Gasanova, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Dagestan State University, Makhachkala, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-1811, e-mail: gsalminat@yandex.ru

Sabrina N. Magomedova, 4th year student, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Dagestan State University, Makhachkala, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9595-7250, e-mail: silverskyline@icloud.com

Contribution of the authors

Salminat N. Gasanova — planning of the research; control over the research.

Sabrina N. Magomedova — ideas of the research; annotating, writing and formatting of the
manuscript.

All authors participated in the discussion of the results and approved the final text of the
manuscript.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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