National-cultural component of the fragment of the language picture of the world (on the example of the lexical-semantic group «The end of animal existence» in the German and Russian language)

The paper deals with lexical-semantic group «The End of Animals Existence» as one of the components forming denotative space «Animal being». The comparison of lexical representations of the given real fragment in Russian and German makes it possible to identity the differentiation and resemblance in its reflection at the national conscience level, «collective mind».