There has been a great interest in the issue of women’s writing since the 1960s. The aim of the study is to examine the characteristics of the phenomenon of women's writing on the example of the features of the poetics of Western Armenian women authors’ works and to reevaluate not only the interactions and attitudes of Western Armenian women authors of the second half of the 19th century regarding the issue of women's emancipation, but also the idea of écriture féminine proposed by the French philosopher Hélène Cixous. The aim of the study is to examine not only the four-level semantic and ideo-logical concepts of woman–subject and presence–state of mind–mood–language, but also the domains of the analysis of the eventfulness of the poem. The actuality of the study is conditioned by the interdisciplinary nature of the studied material, according to which it was analyzed in the context of mutual connections and relationships between literary studies, linguistics, and philosophy, using literary, linguistic, historical-comparative and phenomenological methods. This multiaspect approach to the study of the problem under investigation is justified by the effectiveness of its interdisciplinary examination.

KeywordsHélène Cixous écriture feminine woman-subject language-system language – house of being presence – state of mind – mood gynocritics.

Within proverbial discourse, the linguocognitive model of metamorphosis reveals how French and Armenian proverbs portray human nature and the cognition of human traits. In this context, human nature and behavioral patterns are analyzed through the prism of animal imagery and conceptual metaphors, and the negative connotations associated with metamorphosis are highlighted. At the core of this analysis lies the issue of behavioral and, more broadly, identity shifts, analyzed both on an ontological plane and at the level of conceptual perception, at the intersection of being and seeming. Furthermore, the analysis emphasizes the role of causality in the construction of a new identity. It should be noted that proverbial discourse highlights the immutability of human nature: the external manifestations of metamorphosis do not result in any substantive internal change. From a linguocognitive and linguostylistic perspective, the proverbs under study reveal cognitive models that illustrate the failure of external influence to alter innate attributes, as well as the mapping of human nature onto behavioral patterns.

Keywordsmetamorphosis proverbial discourse human nature zoonym conceptual metaphor being seeming.