VERBAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FUNERAL RITE IN THE ARAB AND AVAR CULTURES
The article presents a linguculturological analysis of expressions of condolence in the funeral rites in the Arab and Avar cultures. The purpose of the article is to determine the conceptualization of condolence expressions in Avar and Arab languages and to describe the verbal behavior of the ethnoses. The material consists of 31 expressions of condolence in Arabic and 16 in Avar, which are isolated by a continuous sampling method from lexicographic sources of the compared languages. The relevance of the topic under research is stipulated with the relevance of the anthropocentric linguistics and the increasing communicative activity of Russians and Arabs. The material for research is the information of Arabic sites, dictionaries, scientific sources stated in the list of references in the end of the article. Scientific originality in the material of research allows to determine common and differential features in verbal behavior of Avars and Arabs, in real scripts expressing the condolence. It is the field of human practice of Avar and Arabic ethnoses, which haven’t been studied in the comparative aspects.