Uzbekistan state world languages university d. U. Ashurova m. R. Galieva

Individual values ​​include ideas based on personal preferences and individual perception of the surrounding world.

One of the main tasks of Linguoculturology is to study how various types of cultural values are presented in the linguistic world picture. The analysis of language material made it possible to single out the linguistic units most relevant to cultural values. They are phraseological units, stylistic devices, proverbs and sayings, quotations, aphorisms and literary texts. Let us consider phraseological units expressing cultural values.

One of the universal cultural values widely represented in phraseological units of English, Uzbek and Russian is “promise”. In all linguocultures keeping promise is positively evaluated; it is regarded as a quality testifying a person’s honour and nobility characterizing him in a very positive way: good, honorable, organized, obligatory, noble, assertive, honest, reliable. “Breaking promise/word” on the contrary is a very negative and shameful trait: bad, dishonest, ignoble, unreliable. Both positive and negative characteristics are presented in the following examples:

engl: to keep one’s word; to be as good as one’s word; to break one’s word; to be worse than one’s word; to go back on one’s word; to give one’s word; to be true to one’s word; to be better than one’s words; a man of word and deed; to give a word of honour;