Dichotomy of good and evil verbalization in modern English and Ukrainian

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the dichotomy of good and evil verbalization in modern English and Ukrainian. The differences between cultural and language world pictures have been considered. The comparative study of lexico-semantic groups of nouns denoting good and evil as fragments of English and Ukrainian language world pictures by means of the procedure of formalized lexical semantics’ analysis has given the possibility to single out their essential qualitative and quantitative characteristics, structural semantic peculiarities, reveal their differences and similarities within the national, cultural and individually-psychological language pictures of two different nations. The lexico-semantic groups of nouns denoting good and evil in modern English and Ukrainian are of complex and multicomponential structure.