The imaginative content of the phraseological units with the semantics of restraint / intemperance of speech in the Russian and Vietnamese

Nguyen Ngoc

The article presents a comparative analysis of Russian and Vietnamese phraseological units with the semantics of restraint and incontinence of speech. Within the indicated semantic group the similarities and differences between the two linguistic cultures are revealed by analyzing the figurative basis of phraseological units. It is noted that the common in the internal forms of idioms of the two languages is the use of images of speech organs, but the difference is found in the figurative bases of phraseological units of these languages. Thus, the axiological potential of phraseological images of restraint and of incontinence of speech is the same.

Keywords:phraseological picture of the world, linguoculturology, linguoculture, speech activity