THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE PHRASEOLOGICAL SUBFIELD UNITES "THE PECULIARITIES OF HUMAN APPEARANCE"
The article is the reflection of the authors' study of the semantic structure of the Russian phraseosemantic subfield "The peculiarities of human appearance" in the Russian language. Phraseology of anthropocentric orientation is the core of the lexical-phraseological system of the language. This ideographic unification is marked by vivid metaphors and expressiveness that causes the interest for studying. The purpose of this study is to describe the composition and structure of one of the main groups of phraseology field "Human being" - phraseology describing the appearance of a person. The paper presents the phraseosemantic associations that make up this subfield, phraseological units within the associations are divided into semantic groups and subgroups, in the groups the oppositions organizing phraseology are noted, which allows to present more clearly the system of stable figurative expressions used to describe the appearance of a person. While characterizing phraseological units of each ideographic group the article reveals the peculiarities of their paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. On the basis of component analysis, the authors identify the most regular structural models of phraseological units for this subfield. From the authors' point of view, the description of the structure and semantic structure of the phraseology of the Russian language allow us to see the details of the language picture of the world, reflecting the peculiarities of the national language consciousness.