Ժամանակի  կողմնորոշումը ազգային ինքնության ձևավորման գործընթացում

Time is one of the main categories that people use to understand the events and phenomena around them. It is a dimension of consciousness, the way by which we give order to our experience. Of all the great abstractions of science, it is the omnipresent time that comes most often to human lips. The studies on time and culture have identified a number of important temporal dimensions that vary across cultures, including time as a silent language: past, present and future orientation, event time and clock time. According to E. Hall, time is part of a "silent language" that gives meaning to people and their behaviors, but the "informal patterning of time is one of the most consistently overlooked aspects of culture"). This paradox holds important implications around our understanding of cross-cultural differences. Understanding how time is divided, scheduled, and utilized provides valuable insights into a culture. Having a specific time orientation does not mean that a single dominant orientation dictates one's cognitions and behaviours. The research reveals cultural peculiarities of time orientation demonstrated in the phraseological units under study and compares English and Armenian cultures from a linguocultural perspective.