Abstract

In modern linguistics artistic text is an important object of linguistic research. The connection of language and culture in the Ukrainian artistic text is evident, because language is an important and necessary component of national culture. The article deals with the problem of determining specific functioning of Ukrainian phraseological units to denote different social status in the works by the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko. The bright reflection of the mentality of the Ukrainian people is the creative heritage of Taras Shevchenko. He spoke about the peasantry fight with the landlords, with serfdom oppression. The prosperity state Taras Shevchenko associated with independence, as well as with free life, which makes it possible not only to live, but to work. The works of Taras Shevchenko is an important source of cultural information about clothing, housing, social status of the Ukrainian people. The integral meaning of the phraseological units is motivated by main words-components landlords, gold, pocket, stake, sack, which forming the representation of Ukrainians about prosperity and poverty. The studied phraseological units not only inform about the social stratification of the society the allocation of rich and poor people but also reflect the socio-cultural views of T. Shevchenko, aimed at the implementation of the most important ideas – independence, freedom, equality. Key words: poverty, prosperity, phraseological unit, social status.

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