Abstract
In the course of the work, an analysis of modern domestic and foreign paremiological studies was carried out, modern scientific trends and directions of these studies were identified. The end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century was done a reproductive descriptive and analytical review of research on modern domestic and foreign paremiology. The study of proverbs in Kazakh linguistics is divided into four stages, in which the third stage develops in the areas of ethnolinguistics, comparative lingua-cultural studies, and gender linguistics. The anthropocentric study of proverbs separated them from phraseology, turned them into a separate branch of folklore science, and focused on the communicative and pragmatic potential of paremiological units. The article analyzes the main aspects of modern domestic and foreign paremiological research, clarifies the directions and prospects for the development of paremiology of the Kazakh language, focuses on the tasks of future research in this area.