LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH PRAGMATONYMS

Abstract

The article describes Russian and Chinese phraseological units with key words — pragmatonyms — in linguocultural and applied aspects. The purpose of this work is to determine the mental national and cultural specificity of Russian and Chinese phraseological semiosis. This is based on the specifics of folk life, which the identified equivalent, background and non-equivalent phraseological units reflect. The key words of these phraseological units are the pragmatonyms of several LSG, naming food, clothing and footwear, household items: dishes, household utensils, household tools, haberdashery. Object of research is the Russian and Chinese phraseological units with Key words-pragmatonyms. Subject of study is reflection of Russian and Chinese national and cultural specifics through the prism of primordial pragmatonyms in the composition of folk phraseology. As a result of the study, it was concluded that pragmatonyms that become Key words in phraseological units, as a rule, symbolize a variety of values: social, spiritual, personal, religious, moral, and others. Among the analyzed phraseological units of the Russian and Chinese languages there is a small group of correlate phrases (equivalent phraseological units); much more often Russian and Chinese phraseological units similar in meaning have different lexical content, being background phrases (divergent phrases); a significant place is occupied by non-equivalent phraseological units, the selection of analogues for which in the compared language (for Russian phraseological units — in Chinese, for Chinese — in Russian) is difficult.