Keyword: «proverb»

The authors outline the main components and criteria of formation of senior preschool children cultural behavior as value-targets of pedagogical work of modern preschool institutions. The authors present the methodical materials on the use of folk tales, proverbs and sayings in the process of cultural activities formation, communication and appearance of the senior preschool children.

The paper is devoted to the study of the proverbs picture of the world with the key token of “promise” in English language. This topic is important in modern linguistic science. The aim of the paper is to establish the main features of lexical components in the language and to define the ethnic identity of analyzed proverbs. The proverbs in this research have been analyzed in the framework of cognitive approach. The English proverbs reflect a social way of the peoples’ life.

It should be noted that synecdoche in Kyrgyz proverbs compared to metaphor and metonymy is used as an artistic means and is realized with various semantic methods. This kind of expanded synecdoche use in Kyrgyz proverbs is analyzed in this article.

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).

. It is noted that metonymy like metophores is also actively used in Kyrgyz proverbs. Proverbs express the generalization of some phenomena in a very brief condensed form, observing the rules of the statement with an accurate transmission of the idea. Therefore, proverbs can reflect a great idea briefly, but weighty. In such cases the role of polysemantic words is great. Metonymy is one of special ways to create such polysemy.