Authors
- Nagornaya Alexandra Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor
Annotation
The paper considers the peculiarities of the verbal representation of interoceptive (inner-body) sensations in English and Russian. The author lists
the basic factors that shape the process of verbalization and identifies the role
of the cultural environment in the formation and exteriorization of subjective
inner-body experience. Analyzing language facts, the author reveals a qualitative and quantitative misbalance in the verbal representation of interoceptive phenomena in English and Russian and comes up with the conclusion
that the Anglophone culture is characterized by a more distinct orientation
towards the cognitive exploration of the Inner Body and offers a better developed repertoire of language means to denote interoceptive experienc
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