The conceptual field “Man” in the paremiological fund of the Russian language

Abstract

This article reveals the specifics of the concept “man” verbalized in Russian proverbs. The study was carried out at the intersection of gender linguistics, linguo -folkloristics and cognitive linguistics. The concept as a complex semantic formation has a field organization with fuzzy boundaries between layers. The conceptual field “man” in proverbs and sayings is organized by a combination of several microfields. The gender concept “man” is a universal understanding of gender, reflected in the Russian paremiological picture of the world. The key lexical representative of the concept is the gender-marked nomination muzhik, which implements the seme “lower social position”. In the vast majority of proverbs, the replacement of the name of the concept “man ” with the nomination “ muzhik ” was revealed.