Culturally specific idioms in British English

Sivak A. Culturally specific idioms in British English : bachelor’s paper : 035 Philology / Sivak Anastasiia. - Kyiv, 2023. - 89 с.

The role of culture in our life is hard to overestimate. The underlying beliefs and assumptions that shape people’s world perception are stored with its extents. Culture as a powerful tool can give a vivid representation of any nation telling a lot about its mentality, history, conventions, social tendencies and characteristic. Besides, it acquires a new perspective in analysis being an important source of formation and etymological peculiarities of linguistic units, because cultural components endow them with new, multi-faceted significance and help to reflect the national worldview.
The lexical-semantic structure of a language is always influenced by the aforementioned factors and as a result it is possible to single out a separate lexical group formed by the idioms.
The object of the research is the concept of “culture” and its place in the phraseological system of the English language.
The subject is represented by the analysis and evaluation of the idioms with the origins influenced by different phenomena in the British culture.