Structural and grammatical features of English idioms with a zoonym component

Gumovskaya Galina N., Smirnov Alexander A.

Considering the modern anthropocentric linguistic paradigm, it seems necessary to study the phraseology of the English language, and in particular the idioms with a zoonym component to obtain new facts about the English mentality and the influence of people and their environment on the language. The article studies the structural and grammatical features of the idioms with a zoonym component. The research material has been selected from dictionaries and British journalistic texts with the help of continuous sampling technique. The article also considers the peculiarities of the idioms classification according to the number of the components included.

Keywords:the English language, journalistic texts, phraseology, a zoonym component, the structural and grammatical features of idioms.