FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH ANIMALISMS AS A REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY OF GERMAN AND RUSSIAN NATION
The article examines the cases of mutual influence of language and culture manifesting itself in the functioning of a language. The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of German and Russian phraseological units with the animalistic component. The authors identified the most frequent animalisms, discovered the linguocultural peculiarities of their usage and functioning in the structure of German and Russian phraseological units. The analysis testifies the close interrelation between the phraseological unit internal image and linguocultural community’s worldview.