COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC PECULIARITIES OF APHORISTIC DISCOURSE (BY THE MATERIAL OF V. I. DAL’S AND S. JOHNSON’S APHORISMS)
The article discusses the aphoristic discourse of two outstanding lexicographers - V. I. Dal and S. Johnson - as the representation of mentality, which is a set of cognitive, social, emotional and pragmatic characteristics. For the first time the conducted comparison allowed penetrating deeply into the essence of the language worldview of each creator and seeing in it the general and specific representation of the information about the perceived reality.