LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE PHRASEOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

Abstract. At present, special attention is paid in the cognitive linguistics to the
problem of linguistic units that represent different knowledge structures.
Phraseological units, being one of the core linguistic means of verbalization of different
knowledge structures, are ought to be analyzed thoroughly. Further to this, idiomatic
expressions and proverbs are vital signals in verbalization of cultural values and
national specific concepts which leads to the necessity of linguo-cultural analysis of
these units. This article is aimed to analyze phraseological units with the fire
component in English language according to cultural and cognitive parameters and to
identify cultural values and cognitive models that are presented by these expressions.