PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS DENOTING “FEAR” IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

In the present article the author analyzes English and Uzbek phraseological units which describe human emotion denoting “fear”. These emotions, which are transferred in the semantics of phraseologisms are classified into negative types. The article presents a sample of these phraseological units, compares them, and analyses the inner form of the concept of “fear” in the selected phraseological units. Theoretical part of the article is proved by numerous examples. These examples are selected from Collins, V. H. (1985), Book of English idioms, O`tkir Hoshimov “Ikki eshik orasi” (2015) and M. Sadikova’s Uzbek-Russian phraseological dictionary and from Russian literary works.

Keywords

pragmatism, anthropology, mythologemy, metaphors, denotations, somatism, temperament, phraseological-homonyms, figurative-metaphoric.