Nataliya Semenenko

The article characterizes the paremiological picture of the world as a specific linguistic formation structured in accordance with culturally determined meanings. Paremia as a tool for modeling the language picture of the world are considered from the position of identifying the culturally conditioned component of paremiological meanings and cognitive mechanisms of formation of the most important cultural stereotypes in their correlative relationship with certain value dominants of the Russian linguistic culture. The basic value, the representation of which characterizes the research material, is the value of "Faith".

The article explains the technique of paroemic semantics cognitive-pragmatic modelling applied to the problem of identifying the value substratum as the accumulator of Russian ethnic culture stereotyped morality. During the research, a research algorithm for describing the value content of paroemia is presented, taking into account different levels of its semantic structure (generalized meaning, internal form and pragmatic expression of meaning).