ON THE QUESTION OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN THE FIELD OF FIGURATIVE COMPARATIVE PHRASES

Abstract

Comparison is a universal element of human thinking. The role of comparison in the process of cognition and generalization of objective reality is great. In order to know the essence and property of an object, a phenomenon more deeply, it is necessary to compare it with another, which is likened by certain signs. It is then that the object being compared is reflected in the human consciousness most vividly, figuratively and prominently. It is noted that although figurative comparative phrases have become the object of special monographic studies of various languages, only some of them address issues of a comparative nature. The comparative analysis is aimed at studying the phraseological systems of both related and genetically unrelated languages in terms of comparing their structural and semantic characteristics. A figurative comparative phrase is a stable or free phrase that is based on the structural expression of the phenomena being compared. In different languages, the connecting element of comparison can be expressed in different ways, by conjunctions, adverbs, postpositions, comparative suffixes and particles, prepositions, and case forms. The dependent component gives the comparative expression a gain function.