PHILOSOPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND LINGUISTIC WORLD IMAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOLK WISDOM

Abstract

Folk wisdom expressed in proverbs and sayings is dealt with in the article. The objecitive of the study is to demonstrate proverbs’ and sayings’ potential in forming a common communicative basis of intercultural communication. The chronological method is used to show that scientific ideas, religious postulates and folk wisdom had the same vector direction in the course of their historical development. The observation method is used to find relevant examples in the areas in question. The examples are listed according to comparative analysis principle proving the global nature of scientific, religious and folk axioms. Scientific characteristic of folk wisdom is that the ideas and observations expressed in proverbs and sayings have been tested by centuries and proven their right to exist in the form of axioms, though they do not have the same compulsorism as scientific laws. The religious feature, underlying folk world view, is its ability to psychologically balance the notions relating to scientific field in people’ consciousness; despite the fact that human perception and scientific explanation of the same notions may actually be different. The novelty of the approach is that it determines folk wisdom own status among religious beliefs and scientific ideas. Knowledge of proverbs and sayings provides common communicative playground being important both for learners in forming a second language consciousness, for translators when searching for correct invariants and for people in general expanding their world perception and shaping a global world image within their consciousness.