OBJECTIFICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF “ROAD” IN THE PAREMIOLOGICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF THE AVARS

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of paremiological units objectifying the concept of “road” in the Avar literary language. It reveals national and cultural identity of paremiological units with the concept of “road”, which reflects peculiarities of everyday way of life, traditions and historically established foundations, mentality of the Avar people. Lexical representatives of the studied concept in the Avar language are identified and described. The article notes interesting cases of metaphorization of the lexical components of the concept “road”. Moral and utilitarian norms of behavior of Avars associated with this concept are highlighted. It is indicated that the nuh (road) as a cultural concept has various value characteristics. The authors concluded that the collected Avar paremiological units represent various characteristics of the road, such as difficulty and danger. Many of them are moralizing in nature – “going on a journey it is necessary to choose a reliable traveler, you should learn in advance the complexity of the road, you also can not rush on the way”, etc. Many of the paremiological units form fragments of the linguistic picture of the world, which contain national and cultural components.