FUNCTIONAL AND EVALUATIVE SEMANTICS OF BEHAVIOR IN FRENCH AND GEORGIAN IDIOMS

Abstract

The present article deals with the study of the semantic features of animalistic somatisms and phezoonyms denoting behavior in French and Georgian phraseological units and identification of their place on the modal rating scale.

One of the active areas of the phraseological composition of the language are idioms denoting behavior and expressing the subjective evaluative and emotional attitude of the speaker to a person or story being described. Due to the complexity of the semantics, the synthesis of the descriptive component, deontic, axiological and emotional modality determines the fulfillment of the expressive function of language by idioms.

Phraseologisms refelecting behavior are mainly used to describe not a typical behavior of a person or an animal, but mostly to express attitude towards conflict situations, offensive behavior, all kinds of negative actions (such as lies, slander, threats, physical violence).

The specificity of idioms expressing behavior, in comparison with lexical units, as well as their expressiveness are directly related to the expression of that normative world image of a given people, which reflects the historical experience of the people, the national specificity and the special worldview determined by it.

Keywords: Idioms, Evaluation, Behavior, Opposition, Zoonyms.