COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LOGICAL-THEMATIC GROUPS OF PAROEMIAS OF THE DARGINIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of the figurative and subject-logical side of the paroemias of the Darginian and English languages. It is noted that the analysis of the paremias of the Darginian and English languages contributes to the discovery of patterns in the field of general paremiology of languages. The following subject-thematic groups are subjected to comparative analysis: wealth – poverty, guest – host, home – foreign land, speech – thought, honor – dishonor, illness – health. Generalizations have shown that all the logical-thematic categories that are available in the Darginian language are also available in English. A number of subject-thematic groups characteristic of the Dargin language are not found in English. For example, in English there is no such subject-thematic group as “guest – host”, which is widely represented in the Darginian language. This group of paremias occupies a key place in the Darginian language picture of the world, as it is directly related to the mountain way of life and their way of life. The connection of logical-thematic categories with the figurative system in these languages is approximately the same. The fund of proverbs of the Dargin language turned out to be a little wider than the fund of English ones. This is due to the fact that the fund of Dargin proverbial expressions is based on the folklore component, and the fund of English paroemias is based on literary English.