CONOTATIVE ASPECTS OF SAYINGS WITH ZOONYM ‘S COMPONENT "DOMESTIC ANIMALS" BASED ON LATIN AND ENGLISH
In recent years, linguistic research has become more anthropocentric. It includes not only lexical grammatical points, but also cognitive and semantic categories. At the same time consciousness and cultural identification of an individual and of a large collective (a certain society, country) became important component of analysis. The linguistic reflection of specific national features and the cultural experience have been accumulated by generations is the layer of aphoristic texts, in a concise and metaphorical form are transmitted the standards of morality and behavior. Among the aphoristic characters a large group consists of animalistic components represented by common zoonyms. Starting from ancient totemistic beliefs and sacral visualizations, animalistic components are endowed with human traits with the transfer of a hierarchical system characteristic of human society, individual traits of character, etc. Zoonyms are not only perform their direct function - they denote a biological species of animals, but also serve to create a vivid connotative characteristics. In this paper an attempt of comparison of the historical and social factors of the ancient Roman and British cultures based on their linguistic reflection in the layer of aphorisms that includes zoonym component of the group "domestic animals". Latin and English proverbs and sayings were examined. The most common pets (donkey, horse, dog, etc) are the protagonists. The individual moral and behavioral qualities revealed for each component and its connotative aspects were settled.