This paper explores the lingua-cognitive dimension of paremias (proverbs and sayings) in the English language, emphasizing their role as carriers of cultural and conceptual knowledge. By analyzing their structural, semantic, and cognitive characteristics, this study reveals how paremias encode collective experience and worldview and how they function in communicative and cultural contexts. The research investigates the underlying metaphorical structures, conceptual schemas, and pragmatic uses of paremias, supported by examples from English corpora. It further highlights the relevance of paremias in cross-cultural communication, education, and discourse analysis.

paremias, lingua-cognitive, English proverbs, conceptual metaphor, cultural knowledge, cognition, phraseology, folk wisdom, pragmatics

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