Omelyanenko O. Phraseological units with thanatological meaning in the Ukrainian language

Object – Ukrainian phraseological units which represent the general concept “death” in the National Language World Picture (NLWP); the aim to expose means of phraseoformation and peculiarities of structural, semantic and ideographic organization of the phraseological units with thanatological meaning; methods – dialectical, dictionary excerption, descriptive, semo-component, semantic identification and differentiation, structural and distributive analysis, quantitative; topicality – it is the first time when phraseological units to denote the views of the Ukrainian people about death have been analised and the peculiarities of inner organization of the phraseological units in the microphraseosemantic fields as constituents of the phraseosemantic field “death” have been determined, semantic analysis of the peculiarities of the phraseological system of the NLWP described fragment has been carried out; results theoretical base and metalanguage to investigate the phraseological units with the meaning “death” have been determined, specificity of the philosophical and national-cultural understanding of death phenomenon has been outlined, phraseological units with thanatological meaning have been selected from phraseological fund of the Ukrainian language, reasons for fixing the certain words-components in the lexical filling of the phraseological units have been defined, the peculiarities of the ideographic organization of the phraseological material have been determined, the connection of the phraseologisms with ethnocultural and mental features of the Ukrainian people has been investigated; branch – lexicology, phraseology, linguo – culture, lexicography.