THE COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHRASEOLOGY (BASED ON PHRASEOLOGICAL SEMANTIC FIELD “LOVE” IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE)

Abstract

The aim of the research is to reveal cognitive characteristics of phraseological units comprising phraseological semantic field “Love” in English and Chinese. The authors examine Chinese chengyu and guangyunyu and English idioms included in printed and online dictionaries and solve the following research tasks: 1) elaborate on the peculiarities of phraseological semantic field “Love” in English; 2) find out how different aspects of love are conveyed in phraseological semantic field “Love” in Chinese; 3) conduct a comparative analysis of phraseological representation of love in English and Chinese. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the comprehensive study of specific, culturally determined models of phraseological verbalization of a particular emotion, namely “Love”. The research is of practical significance as its results contribute to theoretical and applied linguistics and can be used in teaching cross-cultural communication, translation and academic disciplines related to comparative studies of linguistic pictures of the world of unrelated languages.

Keywords

• фразеологическая единица
• фразеосемантическое поле
• ченъюй
• гуаньюнъюй
• микрополе «любовь»
• эмосема
• phraseological unit
• phraseological semantic field
• chengyu
• guangyunyu
• microfield “love”