COGNITIVE MODELS IN RUSSIAN PAREMIOLOGY WITH THE COMPONENT ЗЛО (EVILNESS)

Abstract

The article analyzes cognitive models of ethical concept of evilness, which are expressed in Russian paremiology with the component evilness. It is shown that the concept of evilness is a basic-level concept within ethics, that the word evilness has a very complex semantic structure, in the description and organization of which the ethical concept of evilness plays a very important role, and that in Russian proverbs and sayings with the component evilness. The ethical concept of evilness can not only be metaphorically represented as a materialized object, as a rotten apple, as a product of spiritual creativity, as a living being, as a person, as a goat and as a space, but also metonymically designated through its components (evil person, evil tongues and evil word). It is concluded that in the future phraseological and paremiological studies it is quite possible to use cognitive models, such as conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, propositional structure and image-schematical structure.