CONCEPT “NAMUS” (“HONOR, DIGNITY”) IN PHRASEOLOGICAL AND PAREMIOLOGICAL UNITS OF THE AVAR LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

Models and rules of behavior, formed in the cultural space of each people, are perceived as ethnic. Te Avar language picture of the world reflects the worldview of ancestors, their experience, wisdom and relation to life and surrounding phenomena in the form of set expressions, which are signifcant for a daily life of the Avars and make their speech more colourful and expressive. Te article deals with the peculiarities of the concept “namus” (“honor”, “dignity”) realization in the Avar phraseological and paremiological picture of the world. Based on the data of dictionaries, associative experiments and the analysis of proverbs and phraseological units, there were revealed and described national cultural components of the paremiological images associated with “honor” and “dignity”. Also, there were analyzed paremias and phraseological units used for qualitative characteristics of a person. It was concluded that «namus» is one of the key concepts of the Avar language picture of the world, which is confrmed by semantic capacity and high derivational potential of the concept, represented by more than 150 lexemes. It was also showed that this concept also realizes the semantics of «duty», «heroism», «duty», «respect», «humanity». Te study helped see possible semantic actualization of the concept as well as its national specifcity.