This work is devoted to the study means of phraseological representation of emotive concepts in Russian and English on the example of concepts«гордость»-«pride»«стыд»-«shame», «гнев»-«anger», «радость»-«joy». The relevance of this study is due to the fact that the work was carried out within the framework of cognitive phraseology, a modern direction linguistics, and is aimed at studying the problem of the relationship of linguistic units and cognitive structures of knowledge representation in the aspect phraseological conceptualisation of the selected emotions.