Phraseology with the word "head": Russian language day by day

Let's imagine a basic palette of colors: red, blue, green ... There are not that many. And now let us turn to shades, tones and semitones. There are hundreds of them ... Our language is also arranged approximately. Words are the basic "colors" that, when combined with each other, entering into complex semantic relationships, create amazing shades. With their help, we can convey the true beauty of the world, and what is hidden inside us - thoughts, feelings, emotions, experiences. From this point of view, such stable combinations as phraseological units make the language more vivid, colorful and rich.

What are phraseological units?

In linguistics, the science of language, there is a direction called phraseology. The world of the phraseology of the modern Russian language is multifaceted and great. What is he studying? What explores? What does he look at through the cognition loupe? Of course, for phraseological units or phraseological units, which are stable combinations consisting of two or more words, with a fully or partially rethought meaning. For example, in the phrase "wind in the head" the words "wind" and "head" lose their primary meanings "airflow" and "mind, reason, part of the body" and are surprisingly transformed into figurative, allegorical - "frivolity, carelessness, surface ". How does this happen? On the one hand, scientists like and give a description of such human thought processes, and on the other - it is impossible to fully comprehend how human thinking works, this is a great mystery, and we are only dealing with its final result.

Phraseology with the word "head"

So arranged by nature that a person, observing what is happening around and behind himself, seeks to "breathe life", to humanize both the living world and inanimate objects. In other words, we are striving to spiritualize everything that surrounds us, we are trying to ascribe attributes of character, aspirations, peculiar to ourselves. Interesting from this position is phraseology with the word "head", and if we speak in scientific terms - somatic phraseological units with the "head" component. Somatic phraseological units - in phraseology a group of figurative expressions, one of the "ingredients" of which is the name of one or another part of the body, in this case the name of the upper body - the head. By the way, this group is one of the most numerous.

What are the phraseology-somatisms with the component "head"

What is the head? First of all, this is the upper part of the human or animal body , the "receptacle" of the brain, the organs of sight, taste, and smell. Hence the secondary values. The head is one of the oldest symbols of life, the definition of the mind, intellectual abilities, some internal qualities, according to which the person is evaluated. Probably, therefore, both in Russian, and in many other languages and cultures, there is a huge layer of figurative expressions with this word.

Phraseological units, which include the word "head", mostly figurative, the so-called metaphorical turns. At the heart of many there are observations of the peculiarities of human or animal behavior. For example, the expression "hide your head in the sand" (run away from problems, pretend that you do not notice problems) is based on a well-known feature of ostriches to hide your head in the sand.

The phraseology with the word "head" can express both the attitude, the person's assessment of the objects surrounding him, other people, reflect the people's relationship: "sit on your head" - impose your opinion, dictate your conditions, make your demands.

Often the described group of phraseological units, with its inherent brightness and precision, conveys the subtle emotional and physical states of a person or gives its general characteristic: "the head goes around" - to lose the ability to think sensibly, "hold / hold your head" - be proud and independent. To the same category can be attributed and stable expressions, the values of which are related to the emotional-psychological life of a person: "the head swells", "flew out of your head", "lose your head", "go away with your head."

Quite often phraseology with the word "head" has the meaning of life, for this part of the body is truly a vital organ: "to answer with one's head" - to assume full responsibility; "Pay head" - pay with life; "Headlong" - desperately, recklessly.

Other languages

It is interesting to note that in all languages there are phraseological units-somatisms with the word "head". In some there are more, in others - less. There are similar in composition and in meaning, and there are - characteristic only for one language and culture. For example, in German there is the expression "ein Brett vor dem Kopf haben", which in literal translation means "to have a board in front of your head," and in a figurative language, to "be a fool". The origin of this turnover was the tradition of hanging a stubborn bull on the horns before the eyes of a plaque. Thus, he was blinded, and the animal, losing its orientation, moved in the direction necessary for the farmer. English figurative "to wash an ass's head" - it's in vain to try, to waste power in a word-for-word translation, it sounds differently - "wash the donkey's head", and, accordingly, has no equivalents in the Russian language.