VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT "DEATH" IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (BY THE MATERIAL OF PAREMIOLOGICAL UNITS)
Sereda Elena
Saint-Petersburg State University
Abstract. The aim of the article is to analyze proverbs and sayings of the English language, representing the concept "death". English proverbs and sayings have served as the material for the research, which were obtained with sampling method from bilingual and defining dictionaries. In the article the author studies reflex perception of the world by English native speakers. The research shows that various sides of human life, materialistic and ideal, abstract and concrete realias are reconsidered by paremiological fund of the English language.
Key words and phrases: паремиология, языковая картина мира, концепт, фразеология, когнитивная лингвистика, язык и мышление, paremiology, linguistic world view, concept, phraseology, cognitive linguistics, language and thinking
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