ON THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF STABLE COMPARATIVES OF THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article analyzes issues related to the semantic structure of stable comparatives of the Russian and English languages. The specificity of stable comparative combinations is revealed through the semantic comparison operation. They are formed according to certain structural and semantic models and reveal the features of their structural and semantic organization in accordance with these models. Questions related to comparative stable expressions differ in their significance. In works of researchers, concepts of structural and comparative meaning, its varieties, as well as the content side of these combinations are developed. The imagery of stable comparatives is associated with their expressive and emotional quality. It determines their stylistic features. The widespread use of stable comparatives in colloquial speech is proof of this. Expressive-emotional coloring is one of the main ones in such comparative figurative units as comparative phraseological units. Stable comparative units have an expressive-nominative function if their content structure includes only the primary connotative meaning. They perform an expressive function if their semantic structure includes only a secondary connotative meaning that does not have a logically motivated connection with a denotative lexeme.