THE IMAGE OF FEEDING IN THE MIRROR OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN PHRASEOLOGY. Article 2

Abstract

The article continues the series of publications devoted to the phraseological presentation of the image of food in English and Ukrainian. From the phraseological dictionaries of each language, a general sample of gustatory idioms was singled out, all of them implement cognitive models: (a) SOMEONE CONSUMES SOMETHING (IN SOME WAY) and (b) SOMEONE FEEDS SOMETHING (TO SOMEONE). In the previous article, took place the comparative analysis of phraseological units (PUs), which describe the component food, (a) what is consumed (eaten or drunk) and (b) what is fed, in the phraseological units of two unrelated languages. At the present stage of the study, FUs were considered, which reflect the factually primary stage of process (b): SOMEONE FEEDS SOMETHING (TO SOMEONE). At the same time, the action FEED was split into two substages: cooking and feeding. The analyzed sample equals 144 English FUs and 107 Ukrainian FUs, which were extracted from the phraseological dictionaries of these two languages. Our goal was to show how such processes are perceived and figuratively transformed in each of the ethnic communities: what unites them and what distinguishes them. Common to both cultures was a very small share of the analyzed units (5 FUs). Instead, significant differences were found in the lexical content and figurative transformation of the studied phraseology, which are mainly due to the cultural peculiarities of the formation and development of English-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking ethnic groups. Negative evaluations of actions between people, figuratively reflected in the FUs of each language, indicate a personally oriented axis of hostility among members of the Ukrainian community as opposed to socially unacceptable practices in the Anglo-Saxon community (quarrel, beat someone VS forge accounting documents, deceive business partner). Ukrainians are also characterized by an acute rejection of insincerity in human relations (9 FUs), the English-language sample does not contain any such units.