Phraseological Euphemisms Referring to the Social and Political Sphere in Russian and English
The article is the first to make a comparative analysis of the national and cultural characteristics of Russian and English euphemisms of social and political sphere. The article aims to use phraseological euphemistic units to identify the specifics of euphemistic nomination of socio-political phenomena, including in the military sphere, conditioned by the features of historical development and social structure of the Russian and English-speaking countries. It has been revealed that the phraseological-semantic group of euphemisms of the socio-political sphere is characterized by the greatest degree of national-cultural specificity of nomination of real denotations in both compared languages, due to which it is mainly represented by non-equivalent Russian and English euphemistic units. The reason for the appearance of these euphemistic units is caused by the need to camouflage repressive or military socially reprehensible actions, which is achieved through euphemistic nomination of such phenomena. Phraseological euphemisms denoting socio-political features of life in other countries, including non-English-speaking countries, have been identified only in English.