Bachelor’s paper Friend and enemy. Opposition in modern English (ID:416573)

INTRODUCTION The conceptual model FRIEND/ENEMY is one of the main distinctions which forms a value system and reflects the uniqueness of perception and reality due to the specific features of a particular culture. The psychological reality conditionally denoted by this opposition and its representation is an important topic of research. Reflecting inter- and intra-ethnic relations, the opposition is "friend/enemy" connected with such psychological phenomena as formation of ethnic (national) self-consciousness, social behavior. Representations connected with this opposition, their oppositional character are caused by the process of formation, development and change of relations of people with the world of real objects, peculiarities of personality's perception of these relations, their evaluation and formation of the program of further interactions. Therefore, the conceptual model FRIEND/ENEMY is revealed differently in linguistics, psychology, ethnology, sociology, political science, literature studies. Such scientists have researched this opposition as I. Sternin, Z. Popova, M. Hizova, Y. Averin, V. Zusman, O. Balyasnikova, O. Kitanina, A. Garmashm, V. Krasnych, G. Kozyrev, Z. Kychkarev, but this area is still subject to further research. This research analyzes two important concepts that are related to the participants in original interpersonal relationships such as friendship and enmity. The interest to these concepts is determined by the fact that while studying them; it is possible to reveal the basis on which the norms of relations between "me" and "the other" emerge. One of the possibilities available to an individual to express his or her individual will and right to personal choice is the choice of a friend.