<sup><i>The role of the axiological component of meaning of the proverbs for forming the language competence of studying Tatar and English languages</i></sup>
The article deals with proverbs and sayings, forms of figurative language, exist in the English and Tatar languages. Proverbs can have three estimations: positive, negative and neutral. As proverbs initially have a certain pragmatic potential in them, they are frequently used by people on purpose of creation a certain effect. Any communicative phraseological unit can be used as estimation of importance of this or that contextual situation according to certain communicative task. Thus, proverbs both in two languages can fulfill various communicative-pragmatic functions in regulation of the recipient's behavior: direct influence on ideas, estimations, attitudes of the reader to the characterized object, and a function of acquaintance with inner life of the subject of speech when empathy is needed.