THE SEMANTIC-COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF NOMINATORS TWO AS A REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPT NUMBER IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORLD PICTURES
The structural, semantic and conceptual analysis of idioms containing numeric component «two» as a real-material embodiment of the concept of number in the Russian and English picture of the world are in the focus of this article. The universal and ethno-cultural features of the world in idiomatics is especially clearly manifested in phraseological units with a numeric component. The Russian and English phraseological units are considered in this article. Since we are interested in the semantics and symbolism of nominator «two», so in this article we analyses the definite and indefinite-quantitative numeral. The aim of the study is a semantic and linguistic and cultural analysis of phraseological units and the identification of national features in the interpretation of the number semantics in Russian and English language pictures of the world. The national color of the internal form of the units of each of the observed languages identifies certain features of the mentality and national character of the language personality. The comparative study of phraseological units not only contributes to the acquisition of another language code, but is also closely related to the implementation of intercultural dialogue of representatives of various linguocultural communities.