Translation of Phraseological Units with a Component of Somatic Vocabulary
Somatic phraseology is fairly considered one of the most informative and at the same time insufficiently studied field in modern linguistics. The identification of the universal and specific characteristics of phraseological units with the somatic component in two comparable languages is the goal of our study, in which we used the continuous sampling method of bilingual and trilingual dictionaries. The subject of the research is phraseological units with somatic components with the meaning of parts of the body. As the main task we consider the analysis of English and Russian phraseological units with the lexical-semantic field “parts of the body”. It was found that the process of phraseologization is based on metaphorization, since it is a metaphor that allows one to conceptualize reality, generalize and categorize human experience. Analyzing phraseological units from the point of view of translation, we found that the most common type of phraseological units more often is a partial equivalent having grammatical, lexical or figurative differences.