ON SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE THEMATIC PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES

Abstract

The article examines thematic phraseological dictionaries of Russia and China. The objective of the article is to analyze Russian and Chinese phraseological dictionaries, comparing their macro- and microstructures for similarities and differences. Research is being conducted on Russian and Chinese thematic phraseological dictionaries, specifically “Dictionary of Figurative Expressions of the Russian Language” by V.N. Telia (1995, 368 p.) and “Thematic practical dictionary of Chengyu” compiled by Gao Guanglie (1987, 632 p.) that have not been compared before. The task of the research is to identify the similarities and differences between Russian and Chinese dictionaries of phraseological dictionaries, its object is the specified Russian and Chinese phraseological dictionaries. The subject of the study is the macro- and microstructure of these dictionaries. The study allows to conclude the following: Russian and Chinese dictionaries of phraseological phrases have more differences than similarities both at the level of micro- and macrostructure. The differences are caused by cultural and linguistic peculiarities of Russia and China and language types (the Russian dictionary contains detailed grammatical characteristics, while the Chinese dictionary does not provide such characteristics due to the fact that Chinese is an isolating language).