ANALYSIS OF STEREOTYPICAL LINGUISTIC UNITS RELATED TO THE CONCEPT OF "FAMILY" IN CHINESE LINGUISTIC CULTURE

Abstract

This research is devoted to the study of linguistic stereotypes, which are the object of linguocultural studies, cognitive linguistics. The work is a discourse analysis of various modern stereotypical language units within the concept of “family” in Chinese linguoculture. HSK5 (汉语水平考试 – Chinese Language Proficiency Test) materials were used as a research source. Discourse analysis is our main research method.Stereotypes are social phenomena that occur as a result of stigmatizing a particular people, nation, community, or group according to their well-known characteristics. It is natural that this social phenomenon is also reflected in language, and accordingly stereotypical language units can be distinguished. Linguists around the world have found that these language units include idioms, paremias, language metaphors, stylistic figures, and more. In our study, it is possible to observe that language metaphors related to the concept of “family” mainly express stereotypical views of the Han nation. In the study, stereotypical language units related to the concept of “family” were considered in the following classification of social phenomena and relationships: (1) marriage; (2) the relationship between husband and wife; (3) the relationship between parents and child. In the study, several language units in the form of phrases, lexemes, which create stereotypes, were selected and their discourse analysis was performed in order to show the learner of Chinese language and culture, mainly the modern image of the “family” in the Chinese people. The method of comparative study of Chinese and Uzbek linguoculture was also widely used in the analysis. The study found that the emergence of the analyzed stereotypical language units was primarily due to changes in family form and family relationships as a result of China’s so-called “one child per family” birth control policy.