Keyword: «phraseologism»

The article examines the problem of interpreting phraseological units when working in a multicultural environment. It is indicated that the difficulty in working with these linguistic units is due to the specificity of their semantics. For this reason, when teaching a foreign-language audience, it is recommended to resort not only to dictionary work, but also to historical-cultural, associative and other types of work.

This article delves into the concept of 'pride,' a notion with a protracted history and a substantial accumulation of knowledge among native Russian speakers. It is established that the objectification of the concept of 'pride' is most prominently realized at the phraseological level of the language. Based on the cognitive scenario where an individual's arrogance contrasts sharply with their modest material or social standing, the Russian language has developed numerous ironic proverbs and sayings, for instance: 'Great ships sail calm waters'; 'A big fish in a little pond.' An investigation into the phraseological level of objectification of the concept of 'pride' has facilitated the identification of associative-figurative parallels: the proud person as anthropomorphism; the proud person as zoomorphism; the proud person as phytomorphism; the proud person as object; the proud person as mythologeme.