On the question of ethnographic lacunas in English and Ukrainian

Abstract

Lacune (from Latin - “ditch”, “gap”) is the absence of a lexical equivalent in a language. In linguistics and psycholinguistics “lacunas” are defined as basic elements of national linguocultural community peculiarities, that complicate understanding of some text pieces for recipients who are not native speakers [3]. Lacunas can be lingual (lexical, grammatical, stylistic) and culturological (ethnographic, psychological, behavioral, kinesic etc.) Besides, lacunas can be not only intercultural or interlingual (emerging while intercultural communication process), but also intracultural (intralingual)