ANTONYMY IN THE SPHERE OF STABLE PHRASES IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

The comparative analysis of both related and unrelated languages, the identification, on the one hand, of those universal laws that reflect the nature of language as a certain phenomenon, and on the other – the national characteristics of the specific specificity of individual languages, has been developing especially intensively recently. This is natural, especially if we take into account the importance of such research in both theoretical and practical terms, when it becomes necessary to create bilingual dictionaries, comparative grammars, etc. Given the exceptional importance of antonymic stable phrases in the entire system of phraseology of the Russian and English languages, as well as taking into account the lack of knowledge of this class of FE, we have chosen to study this problem. Antonymy in the sphere of stable phrases of the Russian language in comparison with the English language has not yet been the subject of special research. The ethnospecific character of the studied phenomena is especially clearly shown when comparing the languages of different typological structures. The main goal of the research is to describe the simultaneous antonymy of stable expressions of the Russian and English languages, as well as to trace the dynamics of the development of antonymic relations of the FE of these languages.