Authors : Svetlana S. Yakovleva, Tatyana A. Soldatkina, Tatyana V. Kolesova, Galina N. Kazyro and Aslan Zh. Zhaksylykov
Abstract: Proverbs and sayings reflect different peoples values and help to reconstruct the linguistic view of the world of a particular language. The study analyses how top level nuclear family and its terminal/slot parents and children with sub-slots father and mother, children, son, daughter, brothers and sisters, grandchildren and grandparents, stepmother are represented in the American paroemilogical fund. With the help of continuous sampling method 334 paroemiae were selected. The verification of the research was carried out on the basis of 15,000 proverbs and sayings. Sub-slots child/children (65 units), parents: father, mother (43 units), sister (13 units), brother (11 units) are domineering. 1-2 units belong to the sub-slots grandchildren and grandparents, stepmother.
Svetlana S. Yakovleva, Tatyana A. Soldatkina, Tatyana V. Kolesova, Galina N. Kazyro and Aslan Zh. Zhaksylykov, 2016. Representation of the Top Level Nuclear Family in the American Paroemiological Fund. The Social Sciences, 11: 1881-1884.