Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2016 9) 637-645 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’37 Actants and Circonstants in the Semantic Situation “Congratulation” in the Chinese Literary Texts and Its Translations Karine A. Kardash* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 20.09.2015, received in revised form 11.12.2015, accepted 17.02.2016 Our study refers to the research of the semantic situation “congratulation” in the communicative act in the Chinese language from the standpoint of translation. <...> We will try to describe the semantic situation “congratulation” with the presented situation participants and compare the original text with two Russian translations. <...> The study of the semantic situation “congratulation” is aimed at analysis of new aspects in the theory and practice of translation and intercultural communication. <...> All the texts created by people refl ect a trend of Karine A. Kardash. <...> Actants and Circonstants in the Semantic Situation “Congratulation” in the Chinese Literary Texts… their thought and the ways of presenting thought processes by means of the language. <...> Within this paradigm, such sciences as cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics and others were formed (Kostomarov). <...> Theoretical framework on the semantic of communicative expressions, interesting fi elds of Contemporary syntax is also focused and pragmatic components capturing the study in semantics and pragmatics. <...> The semantic language model is predetermined by structure consisting of both subjective and objective reality, forms and processes of position in thinking. <...> It refl ects the person’s constructing all aspects of the world. <...> In anthropocentrism in this regard, linguistics is explained by researches as the change of the perspective studies, the formulation of a new object of study – the semantic situation and its model. <...> The object of this study is situations represented in the literary text and the semantic situation model. <...> There is an axiom that such kind of research is within the frame of so called cultural linguistics. <...> This science is developing at the intersection of the following disciplines – linguistics and cultural studies. <...> The culture of any nationality has a specifi c national character, and its foundation is based on the national mentality. <...> So the basis is the refl ection and embodiment of the national mentality. <...> Cultural worldview is a complex of rational knowledge and understanding of the values, standards, customs, mentality of the own (“our”) culture and other (“their”) cultures. <...> Actants and Circonstants in the Semantic Situation “Congratulation” in the Chinese <...>