FUNCTIONAL-STYLISTIC COMPONENT OF CONNOTATION OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
The article deals with the functional-stylistic component of connotation in anthropomorphic phraseological units in the English and Russian languages. The functional-stylistic component is defined as the stylistic characteristic of phraseological units, from the point of view of its functional, historical and territorial quality. The author considers three vast groups of phraseological units: bookish, neutral and informal phraseological units. On the grounds of analysis the author elicits strongly pronounced quantitative imbalance of slang expressions and colloquialisms in the English and Russian languages. This is explained by the peculiarity of development of the two languages.