CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLS IN ANIMALISTIC PROVERBS IN UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

Proverbs with animalistic component are used as a figurative characteristic of person’s behavior, since they have a high connotative potential. This article provides linguistic & cultural analysis of proverbs containing animalistic component. Images of animals are viewed through the prism of culture, and this allows to discover common features and differences between the paremiological units of the languages under consideration and also the national pictures of the world reflected in them, which, in its turn, provides an adequate intercultural communication.