COMPARATIVE-CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTICCULTUROLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE CONCEPT “DOG” IN THE STUDY OF PAREMIOLOGY

Abstract

The article deals with the specific features, similarities and differences of the
linguistic and cultural features of the concept "Dog" in the Russian, Kazakh and English
languages. The authors give a number of examples of phraseological units, sayings and proverbs
in three languages, note the elements of commonality and inconsistency in the verbal
characteristics of this concept. As a conclusion, the idea is given that the concept of "Dog"
expresses the specific properties that people themselves give it, there is also an element of its
identification with the direct participants of these relations – with people. The practical
significance of the work is determined by the wide use of its results in the preparation of
lexicographical dictionaries used in teaching students and in teaching activities, scientific
researches in the field of ethnolinguistics, cultural linguistics, psycholinguistics, and other
related Sciences.