Culturally specific idioms in American English

Phraseology is a complicated, interesting and integral part of English language. Modern English is rich in phraseological units. They make speech expressive, bright, original. Therefore, it is quite clear that many linguists have repeatedly turned to consider various aspects of phraseology. Among them I.V Arnold, O.V. Kunin, V.M Telia, A.N. Baranov, D.I. Kveselevych, U.А. Zatsny, U. Weinreich, C. Fernando and others. Pragmatic idioms have become the subject of research by scholars such as VI Karaban, L.M. Medvedev, N.Yu. Medvedeva, O.O Mishak, T.M. Sviridova, O.V Skibitska and others. Linguists distinguish, as a rule, superword, semantic integrity, stability, reproducibility, usability, idiomaticity, national-cultural component of semantics, expressive-emotional expressiveness of phraseological units. It is the multifaceted nature of phraseology that necessitates it take as a basis a set of different features. Which language units fall within the competence of phraseology is one of the controversial issues of linguistics. There are two approaches to solving this problem. Representatives of the broad approach include spheres of phraseology are all stable combinations of words regardless of the semantic transformations of their components. Representatives of the narrow approach believe that phraseology is a stable phrase, which is characterized by at least one component that has undergone semantic changes.
The object of the bachelor’s paper is human-related phraseology in American English.
The subject of the bachelor’s paper – is semantic and thematic characteristics of phraseological units in the English dictionary, etymological sources of phraseological units.