THEMATIC CATEGORIZATION OF COMMUNICATIVE PHRASEOLOGY OF ENGLISH AND JAPANESE: COMMONAND SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD ‘COURAGE’
The article presents a comparative investigation of communicative phraseological units (proverbs) of English and Japanese within the semantic field ‘courage, resoluteness’ and touches upon the question of ‘proverbial mentality.’ The semantic, lexical and linguocultural specificity of the listed proverbs is discussed in the paper. The article contains the classification of semantic sub-fields with examples, as well as cultural and extralinguistic data.