NATIONAL-CULTURAL SPECIFICITY OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS REPRESENTING THE CONCEPT "DEATH"
Sereda Elena
Saint Petersburg State University
Abstract. The article is devoted to the analysis of national-cultural specificity of English phraseological units representing the conceptual sphere DEATH. The concept DEATH being a linguocultural universal relates to the categories that form the basis of any linguistic consciousness. The material for the research is the English phraseological units which represent the concept death received by the method of continuous sampling from bilingual and explanatory dictionaries. The study shows that in the English phraseological units the spiritual and religious experience of a man is represented, the material and ideal, abstract and concrete realia of the surrounding world are rethought.
Key words and phrases: фразеология, национально-культурная специфика, языковая картина мира, концепт, метафора, когнитивная лингвистика, phraseology, national-cultural specificity, linguistic worldview, concept, metaphor, cognitive linguistics
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