Time lingualization in paremic clichés

Abstract

The article investigates the time lingualization in paremic samples. Time, as one of the universal forms of being, has linguistic representation in certain socio-historical processes and national and cultural life of the ethnic group. The Ukrainian language culture represents a unique form of temporal continuum organization, covering its physical, biological and social dimensions in paremic clichés.The paremia scope reveals the general time mode of event actuality, phases of the present in combination with the past and the future. Paremic clichés represent time on a chronotope axis: «microhours – macrohours» with clearly fixed intervals and the division into time constants – measured or unmeasured.The dichotomy «abstract / concrete» in the temporal dimension has a special paremic representation: the social perception of time based on the connection with the production sphere, comprehension of the abstract «time» concept is considered through the prism of virtual time into specific (real) time segments. Since time is one of the main fragments of the Ukrainian language world view, the paremic samples clearly show the chronotopes of cyclic and linear reality perception, which corresponds to the ideological and mental orientations of human being in Ukrainian language culture. In the paremic world view, specific time perception by the Ukrainians is run by the practical and action studying of the being realities, according to the national labor calendar.The verbalization of the time concept in paremic clichés also takes into account the philosophical consideration of the abstract space essence along with which the time forms a kind of philosophical category such as the space-time continuum.