Contrastive analysis of idioms from the cognitive semantic perspective

Abstract

The paper summarizes findings of a cognitive semantic analysis of the English and Ukrainian motion idioms that determined common aspects of motion representation by the idioms and found a different division of the corresponding fragment of reality, certain semantic characteristics, and lacunary zones. Cross-linguistic verbal patterns of motion are underpinned by universal conceptual structures, while peculiarities of national cognition condition different configuration of conceptual features within the models of the motion concept.