PROVERBS ABOUT LOVE WITH COMPARATIVE SEMANTICS IN RUSSIAN AND SWEDISH LANGUAGES IN THE ASPECT OF LINGUOCULTUROLOGY
The article analyzes the proverbs about love expressing comparison in Russian and Swedish. To identify similarities and differences in this thematic group of units, the structural models of proverbs are studied, their classification in two languages is given, and the types of proverb structures most characteristic of each language are identified. The authors analyzed the figurativeness of proverbs, expressed mental attitudes, characteristic similes and oppositions. As a result of the comparative linguoculturological analysis, there have been drawn the conclusions about the similarities and differences between the proverbs of the Russian and Swedish languages. The similarities lie in the presence of matching types of structural models, dominance of the image of fire, use of names of household realities. The differences are due to the predominance of identity sentences in Russian proverbial models, and the logical juxtaposition of subjects of comparison in Swedish ones, verbalization of different mental attitudes, presence of a larger number of abstract concepts in Russian proverbs, special emphasis on brotherly love and the love of a single person in Russian units and love under compulsion in Swedish proverbs. The prospect of continuing this study is seen in the analysis of other thematic groups of proverbs with comparative semantics, which will make it possible to draw more complete conclusions about the reflection of cultural and linguistic features in them.