Shulzhenko A. Phraseological Units Denoting Human Feelings in Ukrainian, English, and French: Structural and Semantic Aspects

The thesis is devoted to the comparative study of phraseological units denoting human feelings in Ukrainian, English, and French which gives opportunity to determine their ideographic, structural, semantic, linguistic, and culturological peculiarities. The complex methodology of the phraseological units analysis consists of six successive stages: selection and compilation of the empirical body of the research; using predominantly general scientific methods in order to form the theoretical and methodological database for further research; ordering the empirical material with the help of ideographic model of the phraseological units; description of structural and grammatical, semantic peculiarities of the phraseological units; identification of common and distinctive features in contrasted languages; defining more productive models and lacunae specific to evry language.