Semantics of truth and lies in Russian phraseology against the background of vietnamese linguoculture

Nguyen Ngoc

The article presents a comparative analysis of Russian and Vietnamese phraseological units with the semantics of restraint and intemperance of speech. Within the designated 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 use of images of speech organs is common in the internal forms of the idioms of the two languages. However, the difference in the figurative bases of the phraseological units of these languages is found. At the same time, the axiological potential of phraseological images of restraint and intemperance of speech coincides.

Keywords:phraseological picture of the world, cultural linguistics, linguistic culture, speech activity.