On the research issue of the concept "death" in modern Russian and Spanish

The article is devoted to the change of the semantic fields of the concept "death" in modern Russian and Spanish. The cultural causes of the change's process are being analyzed. The cause of the change is supposed to be the so called aestheticization of culture, i.e. the evaluation of the reality based on the models taken from aesthetic works. The categories walterityw and "transition" are introduced as basic categories to describe lingua-cultural changes under way.