The implementation of the conception of friendship and enmity on the basis of structural and semantic analysis of Lak proverbs

The article analyzes proverbs constituting the concept ‘friendship-enmity’. research was based on semantic analysis, syntactic cognitive analysis and descriptive method. Lak served as material for study. Lexical revealed following lexemes representing ‘friendship-enmity’: dus ‘friend’, dushivu ‘friendship’, hala-hurttushivu dushman ‘enemy’. most representative lexeme in this row is while least represented hala-hurttushivu. were subdivided into lexico-semantic layers: (1) friendship a blessing; (2) friend known hardship; (3) bad an evil; (4) enemy are antipodes; (5) with people equal status; (6) man need of friend. According to worldview, one greatest blessings person’s life. A true sincere reliable, unlike that does not lose opportunity do harm. Syntactic has presence asyndetic structure within which there have been established comparative, adversative concessive relations, well copulative conditional conjunctions. widely conjunction -gu. Some figurative meaning. There also singled out zoomorphic code culture positive negative characteristics person actualized, where bigger animals symbolize high social status, smaller ones standing at bottom ladder. principle metaphoric transference. Certain alogism stemming from conflict. ‘friendship-enmity’ studied earlier language renders relevant