The aim of the work

This thesis is devoted to the problem of investigating the phraseological units, and analysis of phraseological units in Maugham’s novel “Theatre”. The actuality of this research paper is explained by the deep interest in learning phraseological units in the context. Language is a complex object and it may be defined not only as a means of communication but also as a product and basic sphere of human cognitive activity. Phraseology is one of the most relevant and frequent topics of modern anthropocentric research. The most important impulse in the formation of phraseological units is the linguistic environment of human life activity. The terminology “phraseology” was the main research topic of a number of scientists such as, A. Koonin, Y. Polivanov, V. Vinogradov, W.O’Grady, C. Jaspers, R. Gibbs, and so on. There are several classifications on this topic. However, Russian scholars paid a deep attention to this branch of linguistics. In the middle of the XX century the scientist who studies human language saw that besides a huge number of words that make up the language, there is still a special layer - several tens of thousands of stable combinations of words that, like words, help us to build speech, which is imaginative and especially capacious. However, the existence of such expressions was known before. M.V. Lomonosov also said that “they need to be included in dictionaries” [30, 3]. The term “phraseology” was the main research topic of a number of scientists, such as N.N. Amosova [20], V.V. Vinogradov [27], M.A. Zakharova [33], A.V. Koonin [36], V.N. Teliya [43], I.I. Chernysheva [48], N.M. Shanskiy [49] and others.