Dannaya kniga posvyashchena vyyavleniyu skhodstv i natsional'nykh razlichiy frazeologizmov i paremiy, kharakterizuyushchikh vneshnost' cheloveka v ispanskom i russkom yazykakh, s tochki zreniya mezh"yazykovoy ekvivalentnosti na osnove izucheniya ikh leksiko-semanticheskikh osobennostey. V protsesse issledovaniya frazeologizmy, poslovitsy i pogovorki analiziruyutsya na paradigmaticheskom urovne, rassmatrivayutsya s emotsional'no-ekspressivnoy tochki zreniya, provoditsya komponentnyy analiz frazeologicheskikh edinits, osushchestvlyaetsya opros predstaviteley ispanskoy i russkoy kul'tur, napravlennyy na vyyavlenie polozhitel'nykh i otritsatel'nykh kharakteristik vneshnego vida cheloveka, opredelyaetsya chastotnost' upotrebleniya izuchaemykh frazeologizmov i paremiy v rechi sovremennykh ispantsev, raskryvaetsya ponimanie muzhskoy i zhenskoy krasoty v ispanskoy i russkoy kul'turakh. Blagodarya effektivnym metodam issledovaniya v knige predstavleny novye, eshche ne zakreplennye v slovaryakh, no uzhe funktsioniruyushchie v rechi ispanskie frazeologizmy, poslovitsy i pogovorki, opisyvayushchie vneshnost'. Frazeologizmy i paremii rassmatrivayutsya kak put', po kotoromu my pronikaem ne tol'ko v sovremennuyu mental'nost' natsii, no i v vozzreniya drevnikh lyudey na obshchestvo i samikh sebya.