The article analyzes the means of verbalization of the concept “fear” in the lexical and phraseological system of the English and Tajik languages. The definition of the emotion “fear”, reflected in the chological and linguistic dictionaries, is given, the points of view on the concept of “concept” in cognitive linguistics are analyzed and the author’s definition of this category is proposed. Based on the analysis, it was concluded that there are specific features in the reflection of this concept in the lexical and phraseological system of the languages being compared, which is associated with the linguistic picture of the world of each ethnic group. It has been established that in the languages being compared, lexical and phraseological units reflecting this emotion are distributed approximately equally. The semantic relations of synonymy between lexical and phraseological units of expression of the emotion “fear” in the compared languages are analyzed. It has been established that synonymous relations between linguistic units are realized by the integral seme “to be afraid, to fear” in English and “tarsidan” in the Tajik language.
apprehensiveness, expressiveness, verbalization of the concept, language worldview, semantic relations, synonyms
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