REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “SEA” IN ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of lexical units, which constitute the linguistic and cultural field “Sea” in modern English. The study is conducted on the basis of the theory of linguistic culture and focuses on the interrelation between language and culture. The author emphasizes the significance of extra-linguistic factors in coining new phraseological units, which are viewed as translators of the national linguistic picture of the world. The article also examines lexical and stylistic features of phraseological units with a “Sea” component in English. The research reveals national and cultural traits reflected in phraseological units of this kind.
The article is dedicated to the perspectives on the development of contemporary English phraseology, some phraseology studies implemented by modern linguists are analyzed. New tendencies, such as cognitive linguistics, and comparative and typological research of English phraseology, are described in the article. The trends mentioned above are quite up-to-date for contemporary linguistics and are aimed at solving language as well as human cognition problems.