NATIONAL AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH LEXICAL UNITS TO DENOTE MUSIC AND NAMES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Abstract

The article deals with the attempt to analyze English LU used to denote the music notion and names of musical instruments. These LU selected from the Internet, scientific works in the field of musicology and from modern English lexicographical sources contain interesting and meaningful information about national and cultural features of LU used to denote the music notion and names of musical instruments. The theoretical achievements of Ukrainian and English scholars denoted their studies to the field of ethnolinguistic, which depicted national and cultural peculiarities of the language signs, traditions of native speakers, form the basement of this investigation. The usage of the ethnolinguistic method and the method of semantic analyses is useful for the searching of cultural and natural meaningful information makes description brighter. English LU which we described in the article show national and cultural facts from the life of English ethnos, peculiarities of its culture and mentality and also the facts which influenced the borrowing of the music terminology from other languages. Only some English names used to denote the notion music and names of musical instruments are the components of phraseological units. These phraseological units are used in concrete communicative situations bear the meaning given by language tradition close to the main characteristics of music instruments and coincide with music notion understanding.