ANALYZING LINGUISTIC UNITS OF TACTILE PERCEPTION IN THE RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES

Sensation and perception is a cornerstone on which our conceptualisation of external world is built. All information from the world around us is received by means of sensations and processed by means of perception for further use. Contact perception together with dermal sensation reflects a lot of properties by means of which we recognize objects. The aim of this article is to analyse tactile perception lexis. The basic situation of tactile perception involves two participants. The first one is the one who perceives and the second one is the one that is perceived. The subject of perception may not only perceive passively, but it can actively uses an appropriate perceptive to receive required information about the world. As a result we have ternary opposition of meanings: To understand distinctness of the Russian opposition we match it with the appropriate French and English ones. In the French linguistic picture of the world sense of touch can be represented as: toucher - au toucher - toucher. In the English language the lack of words is partly compensated by means of word-combinations, but in most cases it is compensated due to polysemy: to feel - to feel - to feel. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that in the Russian language words are connected as they have the same base, in the French language words toucher - toucher are similar in their form, in the English language to feel - touch do not have derivational connections. Based on our research we suggest translating the French verb toucher by means of Russian word-combination. We are of the opinion that the French verb toucher belongs to the group of touch verbs as well as to the group of feel verbs.