Extra-linguistic factors of functioning of phraseologisms (on the material of English and Russian languages)

The article studies the extra-linguistic factors of phraseological phrases formation. The examples of Russian and English stable expressions show how linguistic means interact with extra-linguistic factors, forming their unique semantics and expressiveness of phraseological phrases. In the course of analyzing the phraseological corpus, the authors concluded that the emergence of phraseological expressions in the language is infl uenced by cultural traditions, historical events, social changes, as well as by man himself in general.