Lapynina O. The National and Cultural Peculiarities of the German Phraseological Units with a Gastronomic Component

This dissertation focuses on the revealing the national and cultural peculiarities of the German phraseological units with a gastronomic component. It highlights the role of a gastronomic component in the forming of integral meaning of phraseology units of the German language. The complex combination of the culture-oriented linguistic, contrastive, ethnolinguistic, linguoculturological and cognitive approaches can give the full picture of national and cultural peculiarities of the phraseological system of the German language. The basic semantic mechanisms of transformation of the meaning of the phraseological units are metaphor, metonymy. The classification of researched gastronomic components in thematic groups and subgroups made it possible to demonstrate their phraseoproductive activity. It has been proved that semantic basis of gastronomic components in the text is national-specific foodstuff (bread, beer, sausage). Their role in the gastronomic life of the German ethnic group causes their high phraseoproductive contextual activity and their capacity as a phraseological units components to characterize various aspects of political life of the German society. The connotative meaning of the phraseological units in the newspaper style is included in the process of argumentation and aims at the realization of communicative strategies. Key words: gastronomic component, national cultural peculiarities, phraseological meaning, phraseological unit with a gastronomic component, phraseoproductive activity.