PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A SOMATIC COMPONENT IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

The study reveals the specifics of phraseological units of the English language with a somatic component. The collected phraseological units have a complement that gives the characteristics of a person’s mental activity. Phrases are formed with the help of somatic components that characterize the worldview, cognition and desire to change the surrounding world, associated with being, emotions, different types of labor actions, personality temperament, etc. The researchers have studied phraseological units with somatisms, which allow to characterize details of the human mental activity. The somatic component, which is associated with the perception of the world, its cognition and change, in which associations arise with life, feelings, physical and mental work, the character of a person, actively manifests itself in the process of phrase formation. The research has shown how important it is to study somatic phraseological units as independent linguistic means that have historically undergone the least changes and which are the most consistent, stable and unchanging concepts of language. Somatic expressions are important for confirming conceptual ideas with new facts, clarifying general theoretical issues and giving critical, figurative, expressive and stylistic nuances to existing ideas. Studies have shown that somaticisms, especially those associated with the following parts of the body, such as a head, eyes, heart, throat, ears and hands, are more productive in the formation of figurative somatic phraseological compounds.