VERBALIZATION OF WEALTH CONCEPT IN ENGLISH PROVERBS

Abstract

The article examines the relevance of studying English proverbs that verbalize the WEALTH concept. The purpose of the paper is to identify the culturally specific component composition of the WEALTH concept based on the analysis of the English proverbs selected from the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by J. Speake. The author pays the main attention to the definition of the notions of the concept, the role of proverbs that reflect the national mentality of representatives of the linguocultural community and the practical study of the WEALTH concept based on the English proverbs. The scientific novelty of the work is expressed in in the analysis with the purpose of classifying “wealth” into semantic groups involved in the representation of this concept. The results make it possible to classify the WEALTH concept in proverbs into eleven semantic groups. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the research materials can be used in the practice of teaching special courses such as “Cognitive linguistics”, “Cultural Linguistics” and “Translation Studies”.