Paremiological Fund of the Language as the Source of Language Concept Representation

   The present paper explores the paremiological area of the interpretative field of the concept “Money”, identifies the cognitive features interpreting the concept in the English language. The paremiological area of the concept structure explicates value of this phenomenon for native speakers in the historical perspective. The large number of linguistic manifestations objectifying the concept “Money” in English paremiological fund indicates a special attitude to this phenomenon. Linguistic research method involves the use of paremiological dictionaries and collections of aphorisms as vivid evidence of the specific aspects of understanding of the concept found in the lexicon that reveals the features of the values of a particular linguistic community. The research of English proverbial fund, in particular, paroemias nominating various properties of money, with the method of cognitive interpretation, allowed us to identify the characteristic features of paroemias objectifying the concept in the English linguistic culture. When analyzing the experimental data, there were cases when modern native speakers did not understand the meaning of some paroemias and, accordingly, did not use them in speech. The experiment of verification and clarification of proverbs as “frozen” conceptualizations presented for native English speakers allowed us to indicate the values of modern representatives of this linguistic and cultural community which are substantially formed by the current economic situation and the mentality of the nation, as well as to observe the positioning of the presented linguistic manifestations in terms of intensity in the consciousness of Americans.

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