Analysis of phraseological units functioning in Mark Twen’s novel “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”

• Authors: Liliia Dmytruk , Olha Herasymenko

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the concept and classification of phraseological units, transformations application while phraseological units creating, functions of phraseological units in the fiction text, role of author’s phraseology. The purpose of the article is to analyze the use and creation of phraseological units in Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, their structure; substantiate the transformations of phraseological units that were used in the novel, their role in the work. Having analyzed the phraseologisms of the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, the authors studied about 400 phraseological fusions, phraseological unities, phraseological combinations, including authorial ones, phrasal verbs, and also phraseological units that are formed by means of transformations: compression or decompression, replacement and others. The authors state that in most cases phraseological units are used in the evaluative and emotional-expressive functions, function of creating humour and satire, functions of portrait characterization and linguistic characteristics of the character, function of the plot basis and less often synonymous amplification or injection of features. It must be noted that in order to have a more complete and in-depth picture of phraseological units of the novel application and functioning it is necessary to carry out the comparative analysis of different translations of the novel into Ukrainian and study the ways phraseological units rendering into Ukrainian.

Keywords

EN

phraseological unit; compression; decompression; replacement; stylistic function

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Pomiędzy. Polonistyczno-Ukrainoznawcze Studia Naukowe
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 6(3)
• Pages: 95-101

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Liliia Dmytruk

• Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovskyi Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade

• https://orcid.org/0000000318505130

author

Olha Herasymenko

• Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovskyi Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade

• https://orcid.org/0000000205391165

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/PPUSN.2022.03.11

Biblioteka Nauki

2177711