Phraseologisms with a zoomorphic component as a means of forming authentic communicative behavior (On the material of Russian and English languages)
In the context of new approaches to teaching a foreign language, prioritizing free speech in a foreign language, which distinguishing features are idiomacity and emotiveness, phraseologisms are of extreme interest. This article deals with the problem of linguistic equivalence of phraseological units of Russian and English with zoomorphic lexical components. For all its ontological archaism, the animal code, fixed in comparable national phraseological buildings, does not lose its relevance in modern everyday communication. However, literal translation of phraseologisms can lead to communicative interference. The data obtained of comparative analysis provide information about universal and idioethnic peculiarities in the perception of the world in comparable linguocultures.