Cognitive-and-semantic analysis of spatial relations in Russian and Chinese for using Russian repositions «в» and «на»

Abstract

The article analyses spatial relations in Russian and Chinese from the cognitive-and semantic point of view using the example of Russian spatial prepositions «в» and «на». Cognitive approach has got advantages while explaining and understanding means of comparative studies in course of translating a foreign text. There are also revealed complex forms to express spatial relations in Russian and Chinese.