Authors : Yuri G. Sinelnikov, Irina I. Sinelnikova, Svetlana A. Androsova and Svetlana V. Sleptsova
Abstract: The aim of the study is the analysis of the idioethnic peculiarities of the French emotive phraseological units that denote such basic negative emotions as: anger, sorrow, anxiety and shame. The analysis of the inner form of the phraseological units under study is also offered. The result of this study is the classification of phraseological components, bearing national and cultural information. To identify the national and cultural elements of emotive phraseological units in the French language, the researchers use the following research methods: phraseological component analysis, processing lexicographic sources, analysis of the dictionary definitions of the emotional states. The national and cultural component is mostly expressed by a noun or an adjective. According to the researchers, the units’ parts containing national and cultural component can be represented by biblicisms, artifacts, colorific terms, zoonyms and fauna names. Emotive phraseological units with components zoonyms or faunonimom are relatively few, they are represented mainly by predicative expressions and have a high emotional and axiological potential due to the underlying imagery. In the French emotive, phraseology the following colorific terms are used as symbols of various negative emotional states: black, gray, green, yellow and red.
Yuri G. Sinelnikov, Irina I. Sinelnikova, Svetlana A. Androsova and Svetlana V. Sleptsova, 2015. The National and Cultural Component of the French Emotive Phraseological Units Denoting Negative Emotions. The Social Sciences, 10: 1132-1134.