As material for this research we used the phraseological units containing zoonym ‘dog’. Zoonyms are complex language units which have a great linguistic potential. Our aim was to reveal the metaphorical potential of cultural concept ‘dog’, and to analyse characteristics of concept, in order to answer the question – can concept ‘dog’ be treated as universal category of culture.
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