The aim of this case study is to identify national stereotypes of constructing images of a father and a mother in the Russian worldview. To achieve it a thorough structural analysis of the corpus of proverbs representing a man (a father) and a woman (a mother) based on three levels (linguistic, logical-semiotic and realia) is being done.

linguistic level, logical-semiotic level, level of realia, logical design, upper logical-semiotic invariant, lexical set

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