The phraseological field “Women’s Intellect” in the Russian and English Languages

Abstract

The real research is devoted to the complex analysis of the set expressions with the meaning of mental abilities of the woman in two languages. The lexico-semantic microsystems and their ingredients are exposed to the detailed research. The work is done on the example of phraseological units, paremias (proverbs and sayings) and aphorisms of two structurally-different languages. The scope of the study is on a joint of the major disciplines of modern linguistic science which include ethnolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, lingvoculturology, and considers the verbalized ideas of the intellectual level of female persons in set expressions in the Russian and English linguistic picture of the world. The study opens new data which can be useful both at an explanation of language identities, and at the solution of some difficulties of the translation. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the complex system analysis to which these expressions are exposed for the first time. It is necessary to discuss the questions connected with the verbalization of the concepts showing female intelligence, fresh interest of various branches of sciences both in the identity of the person in general and to such a narrow direction as the female intelligence exactly, changing of the woman’s role in the modern society. The scope of the analysis is the lexico-semantic originality of the set expressions designating the female intelligence in the compared languages.