The article studies how the special, cultural meaning in pragmatics of phraseological units correlates with other levels of meaning, as in the form of phraseological units some cultural meanings are expressed. Special attention is dedicated to pragmatics of some ethno-cultural elements in phraseological units. There has been researched different approaches to classifying conceptual systems of phraseology.
The article features the theoretical approaches to the notion of ethnocultural component and its functions. There has been distinguished the main sources of ethnospecific images. There has been considered the main ways of translating phraseological units with ethnocultural component.
