Recent Studies in the Focus of Comparative Phraseology

The reviewed monograph details the results of the latest research in the field of comparative phraseology conducted on the representative phraseological material of a number of languages: Russian, Georgian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, English, German, Swedish, Czech and Tatar. In particular, the typologically relevant characteristics of the description of phraseological units in Germanic languages are identified; a comparative analysis of phraseological units of biblical origin in Russian and Georgian is provided; the national and cultural specificity of phraseological units portraying wedding traditions in several languages is determined; the category of evaluation in Russian and English proverbs with comparative semantics is considered. The presented phraseological studies in a comparative aspect are significant in theoretical and practical terms and will be of interest to specialists in the fields of phraseology, phraseography, comparative linguistics and translation.