CULTURALLY MARKED PROVERBS OF THE ENGLISH AND TABASARAN LANGUAGES REPRESENTING THE CONCEPT “HUMAN”

Abstract

The article presents a culturological analysis of the peculiarity of the semantic structure of the English and Tabasaran paremias that reflect the worldview of the people who created them, their traditions, customs and contain grains of folk wisdom. The article reveals the national and cultural specificity of categorization of the world by proverbs, and sayings of languages of different cultural traditions. The article notes the presence of identical proverbs in the studied languages, which actualize such human qualities as avarice, intelligence, and stupidity. Despite cultural, confessional, social, and climatic differences, the English and Tabasaran people share the same assessment of a person’s moral qualities, his attitude to wealth and poverty. It is also noted that the English and Tabasaran languages have culturally marked paremias, the meaning of which can only be understood, if there is background knowledge.