On some features of expressing cause-and-consequence relationships in languages of different structures (using Russian, English and Kabardino-Circassian languages as an example)
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-3-435-448
EDN: WMKPOP
Abstract
The world around us is easier to understand if we establish existing connections between things and phenomena. There is no area of human knowledge that does not refer to the universal laws operating in nature and human consciousness. One of such laws or principles is the principle of the relationship between cause and effect. This paper examines the methods of conveying cause-and-effect relationships in languages of different structures - Russian, English and Kabardino-Circassian. The paper analyzes about 350 examples. The main experimental material was 60 Russian sentences, which were translated into English (using a computer translator) and into Kabardino-Circassian (translated by the authors). As a result of the study, the following conclusions were made: 1. all three languages have an inventory of means for expressing cause-and-effect relationships; 2. Russian and English are distinguished by a large number of techniques for conveying such relationships; 3. in Russian and English, stylistic differentiation of such means and techniques is clearly visible.
About the Authors
Zagirat T. Khashkhozheva
Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Kabardian-Cherkessian Language and Literature
Alberd T. Boziev
Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov; Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Social and Humanitarian Institute
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Khashkhozheva Z.T., Boziev A.T. On some features of expressing cause-and-consequence relationships in languages of different structures (using Russian, English and Kabardino-Circassian languages as an example). Kavkazologiya. 2025;(3):435-448. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2025-3-435-448. EDN: WMKPOP
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