Representation of The Concept "Woman" In English, Russian and Tatar Linguocultures (on The Material of Proverbs and Sayings)

The concept "woman" is one of the basic concepts of the world. It is universal for every linguistic world-image; nevertheless, in different cultures the concept is presented in its own way with characteristic features of this linguoculture. As a result of the analysis of English, Russian and Tatar proverbs and sayings, expressing the image of a woman, there were distinguished 326 proverbs (102 in English, 108 in Russian and 116 in Tatar languages) by the method of continuous sampling. The analysis of proverbs and sayings of the concept "woman" was carried out according to the following features: 1) proverbs and sayings describing the personal characteristics of women; 2) proverbs and sayings describing the status and role characteristics of women. The paremiological fund of the Russian language is distinguished by its diversity, because it has 12 social roles, when in the Tatar and English languages there are about 11 and 8 roles, respectively. Personal characteristics of women include the following categories: character traits and appearance. The vices of women's nature in English, Russian, Tatar proverbs and sayings are similar. It should be noted that there is a predominance of proverbs and sayings describing a woman with negative connotations. For proverbs and sayings it is characteristic to evaluate a woman from a male point of view, from the point of view of her values.