ОБРАЗ ЛЕСА В ЯЗЫКОВОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ РУССКОГО И ПОЛЬСКОГО ЯЗЫКОВ)

This article is devoted to the basic theme „The ways of expressing the picture of the world in language”. In modern research, the usage of the expressions “the world image” and “picture of the world” is very urgent and topical. Language is closely connected with thinking, though is not identical with it. Each language has its own way of the expression of surrounding reality which is expressed in general national and specific systems of views for all its speakers. This leads to the formation of the unique national linguistic picture of the world, common for the whole community. The word “forest” occupies an important place in our consciousness; it implements a generic meaning of “nature” and has similar meanings in Russian and Polish linguistic pictures of the world. There exist some meanings of this word in Russian and Polish: a terrain overgrown with trees, a certain living creature, and construction material. Thus the word “forest” has an identical combinability in the related languages.