ENGLISH-BULGARIAN PARALLELS IN ANIMALISTIC PAREMIA

The investigation aims at analyzing the resemblances and the differences in respect to the existing language symbolism based on animal paremiology in English and in Bulgarian. The methods of the investigation include: a contrastive analysis of the units’ structure that requires the structural-typological procedure and a contrastive analysis of the units’ meaning that requires the identification procedure in order to find the closest match in each of the investigated languages. The leading role is given to the overall expressive meaning.