TY - JOUR T1 - Representation of the Top Level “Nuclear Family” in the American Paroemiological Fund AU - Yakovleva, Svetlana S. AU - Soldatkina, Tatyana A. AU - Kolesova, Tatyana V. AU - Kazyro, Galina N. AU - Zhaksylykov, Aslan Zh. JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 8 SP - 1881 EP - 1884 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.1881.1884 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.1881.1884 KW - American paroemiological fund KW -top level KW -nuclear family KW -slots KW -sub-slots AB - Proverbs and sayings reflect different peoples’ values and help to reconstruct the linguistic view of the world of a particular language. The study analyses how top level “nuclear family” and its terminal/slot ‘parents and children’ with sub-slots ‘father and mother’, ‘children, son, daughter’, ‘brothers and sisters’, ‘grandchildren and grandparents’, ‘stepmother’ are represented in the American paroemilogical fund. With the help of continuous sampling method 334 paroemiae were selected. The verification of the research was carried out on the basis of 15,000 proverbs and sayings. Sub-slots ‘child/children’ (65 units), ‘parents: father, mother’ (43 units), ‘sister’ (13 units), ‘brother’ (11 units) are domineering. 1-2 units belong to the sub-slots ‘grandchildren and grandparents’, ‘stepmother’. ER -