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Historical developments of phraseological units in English
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Phraseology is a popular field of diverse philological investigations. Nowadays a number of scholars turn their attention to the science of phraseology. One of the ideas is connected with the understanding of phraseological units as phenomena of culture and therefore the function is investigated in cultural context. Thus phraseology has entered the sphere of sociolinguists. One of the best definition of phraseological units is as follows: it is a stable, coherent combination of words with partially or fully figurative meaning. Phraseology (phrase-ology) was developed in the twentieth century. It took its start when Charles Bally’s notion of “locution phraseologies entered Russian lexicology and lexicography in the 1930s and 1940s and was developed in the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries. From the late 1960s it is established in German linguistics. Then the English adaptation of phraseology are by Weinreich in 1969, Arnold in 1973, was approached in European countries phraseology has been developed over the last twenty years. Phraseological units reflect the wealth of a language displaying cultural paradigms of the speakers of a particular language. It is not less significant than learning grammar, lexis and pronunciation. By knowing them we can differentiate positive and negative sides of humanity. Learning proverbs and phraseological units are very interesting, because you can be close with this or that peoples. Using proverbs in fairy tales is understandable for young pupils too. Famous linguist A.V. Kunin investigated a lot in phraseology and made up the whole theory, creating the English-Russian phraseological dictionary. With one word we can say that A.V. Kunin is “father of phraseology”. N.N. Amosova presented the general basis of phraseological science, E.F. Arsentyeva and Grenville was involved in the comparative investigation of phraseological sources of different languages. They reflect cultural archetypes of an ethno- linguistic community and help to make explicit the peculiarities of its world perception. Download 51.68 Kb. Share with your friends:
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