Methodological basis of research binary concepts GOOD-EVIL (on the material of the modern Arabic and Ukrainian phraseological units)

Abstract

The article proposes to investigate the methodology of research binary concepts GOOD-EVIL in modern Arabic and Ukrainian. The article deals with the research of phraseosemantic field in modern Arabic and Ukrainian. The urgency of the problem under investigation is stipulated by the fact that the study of concepts through their linguistic explicates is currently one of the problems of the modern cognitive linguistics, which in turn, helps to reveal the very structure of the concept. A comparison of the equivalent concepts in the Arabic and Ukrainian language pictures of the world allows disclosing their cultural identity. Both Arabic and Ukrainian phraseological units determining human beings have integral and semantic features for each mental condition. The formed field is represented as a fragment of integral model of speech means that objectifies the category of mental condition.