Sacral Phraseology in Dialectal Speech

In this article the nature of sacredness of areal units has been revealed. Extensive attention has been devoted to the importance of researching the images of folk speech as a cohesive linguistic microsystem. It has been mentioned that the verbal symbolism of phraseological units reflects material and spiritual life. Phraseological units concentrate the images that a person makes, reflecting the national world-view, which is one of the most important parameters of the description of mentality and individual or group picture of the world. The phraseological composition of the language reproduces the peculiarities of the worldview and identity of the native people. Peculiarities of representation of mythological culture in areal phraseology of the Ukrainian language are analyzed; the peculiarities and prospects of research of the sacred phraseological unit as a socially, culturally, nationally marked phenomenon of linguistic nature are clarified. It is noted that the image of the sacred is created through the characteristics of the sacred subject, sacred object, sacred action, sacred time, sacred space. The field of sacred phraseology has been revealed, the motivational-symbolic description and the analysis of functional-semantic meanings are carried out. One of the aspects of reflecting the phraseological mythological world-view of the Ukrainians has been analyzed, in particular the peculiarities of the representation of ideas about a demonological being - the "devil" in areal speech. It has been revealed that the demonological world of Ukrainian mythology is the most ambiguous and the least studied element of the folk worldview