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.
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