Comparative characteristics of Kazakh, Russian and English phraseological units with components of the sense organs

Abstract

The article is devoted to the comparative characteristics of phraseological units with the components “nose”, “ears”, “eyes”, “tongue”, “skin” in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages. The purpose of this article is to conduct a comparative structural and semantic analysis of phraseological units with components of the sense organs and identify universal and unique features in the compared languages. The study pays attention to what connotation — positive, neutral or negative — each analyzed phraseological unit has in the compared languages. The analysis shows that phraseological units with a negative connotation in each language prevail over phraseological units with a positive or neutral meaning in each language, which indicates that most often phraseological units are created to describe human vices, shortcomings or negative situations in which people find themselves throughout their lives. The study also shows that in most cases, phraseological units in the languages have universal features, since the senses of any person play the same role, and therefore phraseological units with components of the senses express approximately the same meaning. However, in some cases, phraseological units have unique features, which is a clear sign of the national picture of the world.