The structural-semantic peculiarities of animalistic phraseologisms describing a human’s appearance and character in Russian and Korean

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Antonova A. B., Kim Jiyeon

The Russian and Korean animalistic phraseologisms indicate national peculiarities. Most phraseologisms describing a human’s appearance and character in Russian and Korean linguocultures are comparative units which structurally consist of an adjective, conjunction as and a noun – zoonym. Russian and Korean comparative phraseological units can have both equivalent and nonequivalent zoonymic components.

Key words: phraseological unit, linguoculture, zoonym, comparative unit, to symbolize, the Russian language, the Korean language

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