VII Международная студенческая научная конференция Студенческий научный форум - 2015

English proverbs are varied in content and cover all aspects of

life of the English people.

In proverbs unflattering assessment is given to the rich: one law for the rich, and another for the poor; a thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich and others.

This war is condemned: war is the sport of kings- ie kings need war, not the people.

Fools ridiculed: a fool's bolt is soon shot; fools rush in where angels fear to tread; he who is born a fool is never cured.

Lazy bones is criticized : idleness is the root of all evil; the devil finds work for idle hands to do.

Proverbs teach thrift and hard work: a penny saved is a penny gained; take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves; he that will eat the kernel must crack the nut; he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree and other.

Many proverbs contain a positive assessment: a great ship asks deep waters; brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet); good health is above wealth; little strokes fell great oaks.

The value of proverbs can be both fully and partially reinterpreted.

Proverbs with a metaphorical value of one component: brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet); calamity is a man's true touchstone; familiarity breeds contempt; like begets like; like cures like.

In proverbs like begets like and like cures like the word like is at the beginning and at the end, forming the frame.Such repetition rarely found in proverbs called ring.

Necessity is the mother of invention; procrastination is the thief of time.

Proverbs with two metaphorical components: faults are thick where love is thin; speech is silvern, but silence is golden; that which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember

Along with two distant relative to each other ingredients metaphorical possible presence in the proverbs metaphorical phrase: life is not a bed of roses; zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.

There are a lot of proverbs with comparative value in modern English: blood is thicker than water; a miss is as good as a mile; words cut (or hurt) more than swords.

A characteristic feature of proverbs is unambiguous. This is probably due to the high degree of generalization of their values and their immobility in the text.

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