STRUCTURAL SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF STABLE COMPARISONS IN THE LANGUAGES OF DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES (BASED ON RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND LEZGHI)

This article attempts to examine the meaning and the form of the category of comparison. The paper describes the existing scientific approaches to the category of comparison, characterizes the structural, semantic and stylistic features of stable comparisons in the Russian, English and Lezghi languages. It is established that stable comparisons in the studied languages, as a special category of phraseological constructions, are thematically diverse and are used to characterize the actions of a human, objects, situations, phenomena of the reality. It was found that stable comparative expressions in the studied languages are built according to similar models and have a two-component structure. It has been established that the object of comparison can be a noun denoting phenomenon of nature, animals, birds, as well as a substance, metal, mineral or food product.