World Applied Sciences Journal 27 (Education, Law, Economics, Language and Communication): 58-62, 2013
ISSN 1818-4952
© IDOSI Publications, 2013
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.27.elelc.13
Corresponding Author: Davletbaeva, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication,
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Tatarstan Street, 2, 420104, Kazan, Russia.
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The Aspects of Modern Phraseology Modeling
Diana Davletbaeva, Aida Sadykova and Elena Smirnova
Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication,
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia
Abstract: This paper is devoted to the problems of presentation of phraseological units in contextual use,
allowing to establish the most widespread phraseological transformations in English and Russian languages.
It provides a systematization of these approaches to the study of idioms and offers an integrated modeling
method of phraseological transformations based on the identification of syntactic, logico-semantic,
motivational, structural, derivational and nominative models of phraseological transforms. A brief analyses is
given to the description of all the stages in the formation of phraseological transforms: occasionalisms and
neologisms. The main focus is on the need for revealing the most essential language processes found its
reflection in the phraseological fund, which have not been investigated by researchers earlier.
Key words: Transform Neologism Occasionalism Stereotype Modeling Pragmatics Semantics
INTRODUCTION phraseological units in speech is very significant for
Phraseology is a special part of the wealth of each “new phraseological units are created on the same model
language in which the originality and uniqueness of the like author’s converted units” [1].
language are shown. In the light of keen interest in The majority of Western European linguists suggest
studying of cultures and languages of different people a link with the “decoded aspect of axiomatic” as one of
linguists-lexicographers, translators and teachers of the main features of units of language. It is assumed that
foreign languages feel the need for more exact transfer of each coding is idiomatic. George W. Grace was the first
semantic volume of phraseological unit (PU). Traditional not only to introduce the term ‘idiomatology’ but also to
principle of disclosure of the maintenance of a word use it in the sense that coincides with our conviction
meaning through a minimum of the distinctive signs is that it shows principal features of a science.
insufficient nowadays. The famous scholar Sweet notes that “the meaning of
The detailed analysis of phraseological variety, each idiom is an isolated entity that can not be inferred
research of the stylistic use of phraseological units show from the meaning of the words of which it is
the dynamic character of phraseology. The dynamic state composed” [2]. More than half a century later
of the language is caused by the formation, scientists as Bar-Hillel [3], Cowan [4], Fries [5], Nida [6]
functioning and interaction of commonly used language and Pei [7] interpreted idiom as lexical group.
units together with occasional. The formation of new Kenneth Pike (1967) called his phrasal unit a
meanings of words under the influence of phraseological hypermorpheme and described it as a specific sequence
units serves as an indicator of dynamic processes in of two or more specific morphemes [8]. Thus what we
the semantic development of units of language system. normally refer to as ‘idiomatic expression’ must be a
The nature of phraseological units determines the subset of the hypermorpheme. Allan Healey (1968)
necessity of their investigation in the anthropocentric excluded monomorphemic lexemes as idioms, yet both
paradigm. linguists understood idioms in the usual and generally
The modern paradigm of linguistics marks different accepted view, referring to an additional hypermorphemic
word-formation activities at different stages of language (i.e. idiomatic) meaning which is not predictable from its
development. The study of authors’ variations of constituent parts [9].
understanding the patterns of word-formation as