Work Values in a Modern Linguistic Space

In the modern world, in the conditions of globalization many languages and cultures undergo changes.  Social factors make the mediated impact on languages that is shown in contexts of their use, new word meanings. 

The purpose of our research is the study of work values in the English, German, Russian and Chechen idioms taking into account social and language contexts, the language situation in the Chechen republic.

Methods. The comparative, semantic, corpus, sociolinguistic analysis of idioms, poll of the Chechen language speakers is carried out.

Results. In the basis of work values there are the material values focused on income, profit; spiritual and psychological values - self-realization in work, pleasure from work, understanding and feeling of the meaning of life, spiritual growth through work, creativity, social and career values - education, status in society. In an internal form of idioms the cultural values describing work traditions, customs, and the historical events forming work cultures of different countries were also reflected. So, in the English and German languages the value of official regulated work was accentuated, in German the value of an official duty was also specified.  In the Russian contexts very similar social experience is fixed.  According to the poll of Chechen language speakers at the present stage important are the values of income and success that can be connected with a post-war situation of revival, construction of work culture. In the frame of a language situation in Chechnya the idioms with the opaque internal form which fixed the facts and subjects of culture not taking place in the modern reality are less familiar and seldom used.

Conclusion. Thus, the study of contexts is necessary for revealing the influence of social factors on idioms and evaluation of the language situation in society.