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COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION IN THE USE OF PROVERBS

COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION IN THE USE OF PROVERBS


Author:  O. B. Abakumova

Abstract
The article covers problems of cognition and communication in the use and understanding of proverbs. The cognition-discourse model of proverbs sense actualization is offered. It shows that an actualized proverb is pragmatically oriented and is used to achieve certain communicative strategy accepted by the speaker.

Keywords:  proverb, cognition, discourse, communicative strategy

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