Specific features of proverbs and sayings

Proverbs and sayings play important role in language. They give emotionality, expressiveness to the speech. They have certain pure linguistic features that must always be taken into account in order to distinguish them from ordinary sentences.
Proverbs are brief statements showing uncondensed form of the accumulated life experience of the community and serving as conventional practical symbols for abstract ideas.

INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………...3
CHAPTER 1. PROVERBS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE………………........4
Proverbs as a phraseological unit……..……………………………………..4
The difference of proverbs and sayings…..…………………………….........5
CHAPTER 2. SPECIFIC FEATURES OF PROVERBS AND SAYINGS…8
2.1. Classification of proverbs and sayings……………………………………...8
2.2. Proverbs as the way expressing people's wisdom and spirit………………11
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………..14
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………..15