Structural and semantic types of English paremias on the subject of "financial situation"

The purpose of the article is to study the structural and semantic features of the English language paremias used to characterize a person's financial situation. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to study the features of the structural and semantic analysis of paremias using the frame method, to compile a structural and semantic classification of paremias, with which one can characterize a person's financial situation. The subject of the study is paremias denoting a person's financial situation in English, and their Russian equivalents. The object of the study is the structural and semantic features of paremias denoting a person's financial situation in modern English. The research material is 200 paremias of the English language denoting a person's financial situation, obtained by a continuous sampling method from the "Great English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary" by A.V. Kunin, "Oxford Dictionary of Idioms" and "Cambridge Dictionary". In the course of the study, such methods of general scientific research as the analysis of theoretical literature, synthesis, and classification were used. A scientific linguistic method such as definitional analysis was also used, this method was used to identify groups of semantic equivalents. The conducted research allowed us to conclude that the English language parodies denoting a person's financial situation can be divided into several semantic groups: "wealth", "poverty", "get rich", "impoverish", "be rich", "be poor". Based on the structural and semantic analysis of these paremias, it is possible to formulate a number of differences in the English-speaking and Russian-speaking linguistic picture of the world, based on the different attitudes towards money and finance among the British and Russians. 1. If the British have a person who is responsible for his own financial situation (he is to blame for his own poverty or he achieves wealth), the Russians understand a person who becomes rich or poor as the will of fate (a person cannot be accused of poverty). 2. Among the British, a person who has wealth always deserves respect, regardless of how his fortune was made. Among Russians, respect for a person with a lot of money can be not only respectful, but also contemptuous, because wealth is often associated with a lack of honesty and kindness.

semantic, paremias, the English language, the Russian language, structural-semantic, financial standing, linguistics, frame method, definitional analysis, language world picture