Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of French and Georgian phraseological units with animal names/zoonyms that represent emotional attitude of the speaker towards a person or a phenomenon. We decided to study this problem on the basis of phraseological units as phraseology is the sphere which reveals each culture’s ethnic and psychological peculiarities, their customs and traditions, reflects their world vision. The analysis revealed that each culture shows its attitude towards this or that phenomenon emotionally through phraseological units with zoonyms. Such kind of phraseological units intensify emotions and beautify the speech of the speakers. Besides behind each phraseological unit with zoonyms one can see customs, traditions, temperament of different cultures. In order to find similarities or differences between phraseological units of two unrelated languages, we have collected phraseological units with zoonyms and classified them into several groups. Using observational, descriptive, psycholinguistic and contrastive methods, we have found out seven types of zoonyms with evaluative connotations in French and nine types of zoonyms with evaluative connotations in Georgian. It seems that representatives of both cultures use phraseological units with zoonyms to show their emotions. The analysis also revealed that evaluative phraseological units with zoonyms mostly carry negative connotation in both languages.
Highlights
Deontic modality is an important component of many idioms
Evaluative connotations of phraseological units with zoonyms in Georgian A person‘s perception of the world is the part of common „Picture of the World,“ but it has the itspersonal character and is expressed in different ways – verbally or non- verbally
Conducted the contrastive analysis of phraseological units with animal names, we have found out seven types of zoonyms with evaluative connotations in French and nine types of zoonyms with evaluative connotations in Georgian
Summary
Deontic modality is an important component of many idioms. Their descriptive component depicts behavior of individs. Deontic modality is depended on rational evaluation, showing the relevance of X’s behavior to the norms of a specific society. Evaluative expressions like idioms denoting behavior, can be considered as a type of illocutionary act.
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