A cross-cultural investigation of lacunae contributes to successful intercultural communication, helping in achieving mutual understanding between cultures and solving communication problems between different nations. This study is aimed at identifying and classifying lexical lacunae in the kinship terminologies of the Russian and Kazakh…

Paremiology is a branch of linguistics that studies proverbs and idioms, with their structural, semantic and pragmatic features. The purpose of the study was to distinguish ethnocultural and linguo-cognitive features inherent in Paremiology. For this purpose, the study analyzed family traditions related to weddings in Kazakh, English and Chinese…

Conflicts are an integral part of human communication, significantly shaping social processes and interaction. Conflict is often escalated in news discourse across three linguistic and cultural contexts: English, Russian, and Kazakh. By applying componential analysis, the current study aims to explore the structural and semantic features of key…