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The author of the article considers such word combinations naming ritual actions as to sit down
on a path, to drink to the bottom, to catch freebie. The necessity to study these units is caused by
their special position in Russian: on the one hand, they represent linguistic units possessing certain
grammatical and semantic features; on the other hand, they are linguocultural phenomena that
reflect culturally determined native speakers’ representations about designated situations of ritual
action. The purpose of this article is to define the linguocultural specificity of the word combinations
under study. The basis of the linguocultural potential of the studied units is a cultural connotation
that reflects the relation of the native speaker to the subject of the nomination and the existence
conditions (temporal, geographical, economic, cultural) of the given phenomena in corresponding
linguoculture, and marks the denotative, significative and connotative components of the meaning.
In this work, the introspective method and the method of contextual analysis are used to reveal
cultural connotations and estimate the linguocultural potential of the units from the native speaker’s
point of view. In addition, the cultural connotation of the word combinations under study is brought
to light based on the conclusions of the scientists who consider these expressions nationally unique.
The article defines the localization sphere of the linguocultural potential in the meaning of the
examined structures. The author concludes that the cultural connotation can be manifested in the
meaning of one of the lexemes that form the word combination while motivating the semantics of
the whole word combination, or it can exist only in the meaning of the whole expression if the
meanings of its constituent words are not free, phraseologically connected or if they don’t motivate
the semantics of the whole expression.
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