Expressions With the French Component Famille as a Special Model of the “Family” Concept

The article attempts to express the lexemes famille in French as a special model reflecting the concept of “Family”. In particular, different forms of conceptual thinking, such as “Family” are revealed by comparing the lexical meanings of the lexeme famille with the shades of phraseological meaning. That is, this concept has been analyzed with the help of the famille component on the basis of “Father”, “Mother”, “Child”, “whole family”, “family outside the family” micro-conceptual concepts. According to the results of the analysis, the uniqueness of the French people within the framework of the concept of "Family" has been classified by the connection with the national-cultural views of this nation on the basis of the four elements: language, culture, people, and thinking. Various lexical features given in some French dictionaries were taken into account to fully understand the semantic content of the French lexeme famille. In the process of semantically researching the French lexeme famille, sociolinguistic features have also been taken into consideration. The semantic shades of phraseological expressions with the famille component have been analyzed. This situation causes a significant expansion of the category of linguistic meaning specific to the analyzed word. It can be considered that a complex analysis of phrases with the lexeme famille in the French language as a unique "model" for expressing the concept of family from different points of view helps to explain the exact position of phraseological units at the lexical-semantic level to a certain extent.