This paper illustrates the way different aspects of human life and a person’s attitude to it are reflected in the language. The English and Russian semantic groups and subgroups, which are the basis of the concept “Life” of the ethnosemantic personality, are defined and characterized.

concept “Life”, ethnosemantic personality, semantics of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings, the linguistic worldview, cross-cultural communication

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