Keyword: «paremia»

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".

This article delves into the concept of 'pride,' a notion with a protracted history and a substantial accumulation of knowledge among native Russian speakers. It is established that the objectification of the concept of 'pride' is most prominently realized at the phraseological level of the language. Based on the cognitive scenario where an individual's arrogance contrasts sharply with their modest material or social standing, the Russian language has developed numerous ironic proverbs and sayings, for instance: 'Great ships sail calm waters'; 'A big fish in a little pond.' An investigation into the phraseological level of objectification of the concept of 'pride' has facilitated the identification of associative-figurative parallels: the proud person as anthropomorphism; the proud person as zoomorphism; the proud person as phytomorphism; the proud person as object; the proud person as mythologeme.