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Evaluation of a Human behavior in English Proverbs

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Abstract

This article is devoted to study to the concepts which express abstract concepts, characterize human behavior, reflect cultural dominants of human consciousness and represent axiological constants of pictures of the world. It also reveals peculiarities of the English proverbs and their relations to the human characteristics and evaluation and identifies differences and similarities in proverbs of the English language expressing an assessment of personality management in the semantic aspect.

Keywords

human behavior
human consciousness
good and bad mode
person's character traits
state of a person
evaluative meanings
good and evil
honesty and dishonesty
insincerity

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The author (s) declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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  • Submitted
    12 March 2022
  • Revised
    12 March 2022
  • Published
    12 March 2022