CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DOMINANTS IN SEMANTICS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS
The current research is aimed to identify cultural and ethnic dominants, specifi c features, refl ected in semantics of lexical items. The analysis of culturally important components fi xed in a phraseological system of language is quite urgent in connection with the growing interest in the study of the link between language and culture. The national identity of a worldview of this or that ethnocultural community is rooted in the way of life and psychology of the people, as refl ected in the language by the semantic structure of verbal signs. Strongly pronounced anthropocentric nature of phraseological units allows to reveal ethnic stereotype representations of the past, cultural concepts of a particular ethnic group.