Abstract
The article presents an analysis of referential situations in Russian and English proverbs with the semantics of ‘begin-ning’ and ‘ending’, extracted by the continuous sampling method from the lexicographic discourse of Russian and Eng-lish dictionaries. The object of the analysis is Russian and English proverbs with the lexemes "nachalo" / "konets" and "beginning" / "ending" and their semantic representatives. The subject of the analysis is referential situations that have received linguistic expression in the evaluative semantics of the paroemias under consideration, in which propositional meanings, assigned to such universal concepts of the naive picture of the world as “beginning” and “ending”, are re-vealed. The main goal of the study is a semantic-pragmatic analysis of evaluative paroemias with abstract nouns "nachalo" / "konets" and "beginning" / "ending", as well as their derivational and semantic representatives. Russian and English proverbs analyzed in the context of referential situations are considered as certain types of semantic state-ments. The results show that, as a rule, paroemias with the lexemes "nachalo" / "konets", "beginning" / "ending" and their semantic representatives reproduce a knowledge-warning, knowledge-advice or a knowledge-statement. The spec-ificity of the referential situations described in the utterances of both Russian and English paroemias with selected lex-emes and their semantic representatives classifies them into controlled – uncontrolled, specified – non-specified. It is noted that the concept of evaluation permeates almost all the proverbs of both languages, but the semantic form of its representation in different constructions is not the same. It is concluded that in the languages under study the speakers evaluate the same referential situations differently, taking into account the specifics of the national and cultural char-acteristics of the Russian and English languages.
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