Wang Y. Language manifestations of the conceptual binomial of yin – yang (阴阳) in Chinese language and their foreign language interpretations

This is thesis for getting the scientific Candidate degree in Philology. Specialty 02.10.13 – Languages of the peoples of Asia, Africa, the indigenous people of America and Australia. – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. – Kyiv, 2020. The dissertation is devoted to the study of verbal representations of the conceptual binomial “yin – yang” (阴阳) in Chinese language and the peculiarities of their foreign language interpretations (using the Russian language as an example). The novelty of such a study is in categorizing antonyms from a new point of view – as natural and conditional, based on what underlies the antonymic connections of a couple of words: the conceptual binomial “yin – yang” or the arrangement between the bearers of a particular culture.