PROVERBS AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NATIONAL COGNITIVE WORLDVIEW

Today linguistics tries to explore language together with such categories as human, nation, mentality, perception, consciousness, mindset, mind, etc. In this regard, scientific interest is increasing not only in the national and cultural aspects of the language, but also in the detailed examination of the language units that reflect the phenomena characteristics of certain ethno-cultural communities. According to the general studies in linguistics a person manages to perceive the world around him or her orienting to the language itself, since in language the national and general historical experience is recorded. Therefore, when a person or people begin to take an interest in their past, they directly turn to the language and its stable various expressions. The study shows the findings representing the British national cognitive worldview with the help of certain significant proverbs. This research is built up on the analysis demonstrating how British national proverbs verify specifics, character and values of the British people. The British national cognitive worldview through the linguistic representation considered to be the object of this study. British proverbs representing the cognitive worldview of the British nation is the subject of this scientific work. Proverbs being very important linguistic units considered to be fixed stable forms of the national phenomena. That is why they can truly represent the main idea of the formation and existence of the British national cognitive worldview. The selected proverbs were taken from British translation and etymological dictionaries: The Concise Dictionary of Proverbs and the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, etc. With the help of the descriptive method it was possible to analyze the British proverbs that were chosen from dictionaries. The component analysis showed the attempt to figure out the British national cognitive worldview. The analysis helped to reveal that concepts understatement and home mostly form the vision of the British mindset. Very important British values as individualism and personal space formed due to the country`s geographical position, climate and weather influenced on this. Certain lexemes with a strong emotional coloring revealed national stereotypes and values of the British mindset. This article includes the findings of all collected data.

Keywords: cognitive worldview, mentality, nation, proverbs