THE CONCEPT OF «WOMAN» IN RUSSIAN APHORISMS

Abstract

Language is a key element of communication. It was created by human and aimed at human, reflecting all aspects of person’s life and the life of the society in which a person socializes and lives. The fact of gender roles in a language and their influence on different languages’ dictionaries is lingual universal. The purpose of this study is to focus Russian aphorisms with the concept of «Woman» on the essence of their linguistic and cultural value in the tradition of the Russian people. The object of this study is aphorisms and winged words with the component woman and lexical variants synonymous with it. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the perception and interpretation of the concept of «Woman» by the authors of aphorisms – authoritative representatives of the intelligentsia. As a result of using the methods of conceptual, semantic, associative analysis in the language, the procedures of the descriptive and the translation methods, the following conclusions were made. Basically, the Russian language masters as aphorisms the statements of poets and writers with a negative, ironic, functionally restrictive and even demeaning view of female behavior, which is evidence of the stability of patriarchal consciousness in Russian society. As a rule, the maternal function and the external beauty of a woman are positively perceived. The results of this study may be useful to those who study Russian as a foreign language, and to those who engage in gender studies.