Abstract
The paper deals with the representation of the concepts “Happiness & Unhappiness” in the Kazakh proverbs and sayings. The topicality of the study is defined by the significance of the intersection between culture and language, paremiology and cultures in particular, the complexity of the nature of the key concepts of “happiness” - “unhappiness”. Moreover, proverbs and sayings fix the constants of consciousness and culture that are relevant to all speakers of the language, define an evaluation system of the world, and are the ones that allow us to distinguish and analyze the basic concepts. The purpose of the study is to describe “happiness-unhappiness” concepts with regard to the formal and semantic organization of Kazakh proverbs, which represent the illustrated concepts. The concepts “happiness & unhappiness” are in the opposition, components of which can relate to each other by the principle of interdependence. And the characterization of the concepts “happiness” and “unhappiness” is largely determined by their representation of certain signs and their semantic characteristics. As a result of the study, which was conducted on the base of Kazakh paremiological materials, it was revealed that the phraseological-semantic meaning of the concepts “happiness& unhappiness” is of utmost importance in the Kazakh language.