Comparative Analysis of English and French Paroemiological Units and the Ways of Their Translation
The article describes the translational analysis of English and French paroemias that are the striking example of untranslatability or hard translatability by virtue of their figurativeness and ethno-cultural specificity. Ethno-cultural specificity of paroemias is the most brightly revealed during comparison of identical linguistic examples, i. e. proverbs and sayings. As far as phraseology is concerned, it gives the opportunity to be absorbed in the culture of a country and to study it through the language, in particular, through the heritage of folk art. Ethnic specificity can consist in natural, cultural, everyday and historical realities peculiar to this people and non-existent in other people. From scientific point of view it is important to study this specificity through proverbs and sayings. Comparison of this layer allows to realize the cultural specificity of any language and to reveal community between them at the same time. Comparison of English and French paroemias will allow to understand the linguistic world-images of these languages and the cultural values of these peoples better, and also to realize originality of these languages and to penetrate to their figurative system and meanings more deeply. No doubt, comparison of the unities’ stricture, component structure and semantics, determination of their equivalence is only the first stage of their comparative analysis. However, it is significant since it is the starting point for deeper examination of statements’ meaning. In our research we relied on the classification offered by A. V. Koonin.