ENGLISH IDIOMS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MODAL MEANING

Being a multifaceted unit idioms can be studied from five angles: meaning, function, style, emotiveness and contrastive analysis. The merit of this paper lies in the fact that it attempts to analyze evaluative functions English idioms. analysis is performed within functional framework thesis establish semantics Idioms operate as encoded resources for amplifying attitudinal meanings entities phenomena they describe. They serve entail multiple modal intensifying force text. values are further divided according whether value which entails intensification positive, negative or dual. A special category positive concerns use force.