Informative Function Of Paremias With Component-Number In The Language Practices Of Youth: An Analysis Of English Language Materials

Abstract

The picture of the linguistic world is the basis of language and culture. One of the components of the linguistic picture of the world is the phraseological picture of the world. The study of paremias includes but is not limited to its characteristics, origin and scope of use.  There is an aspect of literature, psychology, anthropology, etc. in the study of paremias. The occasional treatment of numerals in English paremies allowed to distinguish the following groups:  basic, quantitative, fractional, composite numerals. In the study of the frequency of use of paremia in the speech of young people, a survey was conducted. 57 young people aged 18 to 22 were involved in the experiment. They are asked to write the most commonly used paremias with numerical numbers - 1,2,3,4,7. So the experiment showed that young people could easily cope with the proverbs with numerical composites: 1,2,3,7. It took them a short time to reproduce the paremia with the component number 4. It turned out that the priority in the paremiological units of the participants was mostly positive value.