PHRASEOLOGICAL SYNONYMY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS AN OBJECT OF LINGUISTIC STUDY

Abstract

The article deals with an analytical study of phraseological synonymy as one of the ways to reflect the surrounding reality in the linguistic picture of the world of national languages. The ability of phraseological units to form synonymous series is highlighted and described using the example of verbal phraseological units objectifying the concept of “censure” in English. The authors give a generalized description of the main criteria for the synonymy of the phraseological units under consideration: belonging to one grammatical category, the presence of the same set of basic semantic components. The following types of phraseological synonyms embodying the concept of “censure” are revealed: verb phraseological units that differ in lexical composition, but have a similar syntactic structure; verbal phraseological units with a similar syntactic structure and common component.