CATEGORII CONCEPTUALE ALE EMOŢIILOR REDATE DE EXPRESII FRAZEOLOGICE SOMATICE CU COMPONENTA LEXICALĂ „OCHI”.

Phraseological units that include a somatic component represent a vast linguistic material for researching the spiritual culture in different languages. In this paper we study the somatic phraseological units that contain the word “eye” in the English, Romanian and Russian languages from the cognitive linguistics perspective. The examples have been collected from dictionaries and classified according to the “image of the eye” which is associated with a certain emotive conceptual category. Also we have analyzed the phraseological units according to the semantic criteria suggested by the American professor G. Lakoff when researching the conceptual metaphor. Another method used in this paper is that of the Image Schema that is largely used by the Polish linguist A. Wierzbicka in her papers about universality/non-universality of emotion concepts in many cultures. Having conducted the study we identified cultural similarities and differences in the conceptualization of emotion categories in the three languages and have identified different “images of the eye” that describe the conceptual categories of emotions in English, Romanian and Russian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]