Linguocultural Features of Zoomorphic Phraseological Units
The present article deals with the problem of linguocultural features of zoomorphic phraseological units in Spanish, Uzbek, English and Russian languages. Phraseological units with zoo-component belong to the number of the language units having a high degree of frequency of occurrence in the different types of speech act. Materials and results of the analysis demonstrate that formation and usage of zoomorphic phraseological units depend on the communicative intention of the speaker - the member of the communicative act. In terms of conformity (discrepancy) zoo characteristics of different languages is interesting to compare the data on the zoomorphisms. Rich information about the content of zoocharacteristic gives predicates phrases containing zoocharacteristics and zoocomparing, that as a rule, are fixed, the actual sign of character or action that gets shaped by zoomorphism assessment. Zoomorphism as mental units of culture that reflects a person’s behavior is an integral part of the inner world of representatives of different cultures, and a significant part of the mentality of the language picture of the world of these peoples.