Zoosemisms and zoonyms in phraseological units

Li Yimo

The paper discussed the difference between phraseological zoonymic meaning and zoosemic meaning. The terms zoonym, zoomorphism and zoosemism are often confused in scientific terminology. On the material of "Russian Semantic Dictionary", "Dictionary of offensive words" L. V. Dulichenko and "Ideographic Dictionary of Russian phraseological units with the names of animals" T. V. Kozlov, described types of relations between phraseological zoonymic meanings and zoosemic meanings. Focused on comparing the characteristics of the values of those and other units. The study revealed three types of discrepancies between phraseological zoonymic meaning and zoosemic meaning. The necessity of differentiation has been proved.

Keywords:zoosemism; zoonym in phraseological units; metaphor; compare; Russian explanatory dictionaries.