The article is devoted to discussing transformed phraseological units based on the American government blog materials. theoretic part of work touches upon question terminology. authors study existing approaches fixedness (stability, irregularity, occasional use, modifications) units. We seek analyze modified variants units, describe mechanisms transformations, and provide their translations. Sp...

The relevance of the study is caused by the continuing interest of linguists to the problem of phraseology as a special – national – sign in the language system, reflecting the national-cultural features of the perception of the world, national mentality, ideological and mental attitudes of native speakers. The analysis of scientific literature showed that the phraseological layer reflecting th...

The article discusses the types of use of phraseological units in the discourse of British and Latvian newspapers, namely core use and instantial stylistic use of phraseological units. The background of the research of this kind is discussed with special attention being paid to the contribution to this field of phraseological studies of two scholars – Anita Naciscione and Andreas Langlotz. Vari...

This paper explores two aspects of word use and word meaning in terms of Sinclair's (1991, 1998) distinction between the open-choice principle (or terminological tendency) and the idiom principle (or phraseological tendency). Technical terms such as strobilation are rare, highly domain-specific, and of little phraseological interest, although the texts in which such word occur do tend to contai...

Foreign language (FL) knowledge has been shown to contribute significantly to FL reading performance. Studies have contrasted the contribution of FL vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, following a dichotomous view of these components, producing mixed results. Despite the increasingly recognized formulaic nature of language, the contribution made by phraseological knowledge to reading ability ha...

Verbal Phraseological Units are phrases made up of two or more words in which at least one of the words is a verb that plays the role of the predicate. One of the characteristics of this type of expression is that its global meaning rarely can be deduced from the meaning of its components. The automatic recognition of this type of linguistic structures is a very important task, since they are a...

Certain areas of the language don’t attain a complete characterization until they are analyzed through pragmatic perspective: phraseology is an example this. This why we decided to do phraseopragmatic analysis idiomatic expression ¡calla ho!. At first, pay attention that as phraseological unit, is, completely institutionalized segment shows fixation and semantic specialization. Next, analyze el...