Abstract

The issue of the development of various philological processes and, accordingly, their impact on society is always relevant and multifaceted for researchers in this field. Admittedly, such interest is mainly attracted by the importance of this subject since it plays a considerable role in the socio-cultural sphere. Furthermore, the variety of phraseological units in any language is really striking in its number, yet in this study, attention is focused directly on the expressions that characterise the negative psycho-emotional state of a person. The presented research is conducted within the framework of a linguoculturological approach to the study of phraseology, it facilitates solving a number of general theoretical and methodological issues related to the identification and description of the facts of how the conceptual sphere of culture affects the development of phraseological signs, how information about culture is preserved and transmitted in the meaning of phraseological units. The object of study is phraseological units of the Kazakh and Chinese languages as culturally determined signs of the natural language in their development and functioning. The subject of the study is the forms and mechanisms of the impact of the conceptual sphere of culture on the language, in which the meanings of phraseological units as cultural and linguistic signs are created. The purpose of the study is the linguocultural modelling of phraseological units of the Kazakh and Chinese languages. The material of the study is phraseological units of the Kazakh and Chinese languages, characterising the negative psycho-emotional state of a person, selected from the most authoritative modern lexicographic and phraseological publications (printed and electronic). To analyse and study this issue, several methodological approaches were used, including comparative analysis of linguistic material, the functional and stylistic methods, synthesis, deduction, analysis of scientific literature, and the structural method. The result obtained upon studying this issue clearly reflects the identified theoretical and practical foundations of linguocultural modelling and establishes that each phraseology, due to the metaphorical conceptual model underlying its image, contains types of cultural information – archetypal, mythological, religious, philosophical, scientific, emotional-sensual, aesthetic, and ethical information