Сопоставительный анализ зоонимов в английском и немецком языках

Currently, phraseology is widely seen as a highly promising field of linguistic research that shows potential for scholars of language and culture both. One possible application of phraseology is its ability to grant us an inside look into the connection between culture and language by analyzing idioms, proverbs and other formulaic expressions unique to a language, because these linguistic patterns often carry deep-seated cultural meanings. When it comes to idiom analysis, animal phrasemes are of particular interest to many phraseologists, because the zoomorphic code is universal to all people and has a long history in all languages, which means that many cultures contain their own rich vocabulary of formulaic animal language. The aim of this paper is to analyze the differences and similarities between animal idioms in German and English by comparing various examples pulled from publicist sources. Through a review of publicist texts in online corpora, the paper analyses and compares the differences and similarities between the two languages to reveal cultural and linguistic traits of German and English. Keywords: idiom, phraseological unit, animal phrasemes, zoonyms, cultural motivation, publicist discourse, comparative analysis