Mizin K. Comparative Set Phrases in English, German, Ukrainian, and Russian from the Perspective of Contrastive Linguoculturology

The thesis focuses on the methodological foundations of a new – contrastive-linguoculturological – approach to linguistic phenomena research and provides theoretical generalization and new elaboration of the English, German, Ukrainian, and Russian comparative set phrases anthropocentricity and axiologicality linguistic description scientific problem from the perspective of contrastive linguoculturology. The new methods applied for interlingual research of phraseological systems made it possible to model tertium comparationis in linguoculturological comparison of comparative set phrases. The study of comparative set phrases axiologicality provided for establishing the peculiarities of world conceptualization and categorization by the British, Germans, Ukrainians, and Russians. It has been proved that comparison is a powerful factor, creating the picture of the world in our minds.