Using Linguocultural Approach to Compare and Contrast English and Russian Phraseological Units
The article investigates some parameters used for English and Russian phraseologisms contrastive analysis. To establish their similarities and differences it is necessary to analyze denotational, stylistic, evaluation and motivational components of lexical meanings, as well as structural characteristics of phraseological units. A special emphasis should be placed on their cultural connotations, since according to the linguocultural approach phraseologisms are seen as cultural signs.