Axiological Phraseological Units at Foreign Language Lessons at University as a Reflection of National Mentality

Abstract

The article reveals the importance of studying axiological phraseological units at foreign language lessons in higher school in the process of forming a communicative competence that provides an opportunity for effective intercultural communication. Communication with native speakers cannot be effective without taking into account their national characteristics and national mentality. In addition, understanding the national mentality contributes to the formation of a value system for future professionals, which is an indispensable component of the educational process at university. The most vivid reflection of values, traditions and features of the perception of the world of particular peoples in the language occurs through phraseological units. The analysis of German axiological phraseological units makes it possible to determine values and anti-values in the German linguoculture that are a reflection of the national mentality and are manifested in all spheres of life of the Germans.