SEMANTICS OF СANONIC AND TRANSFORMED TYPES OF PROVERBIAL AND PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS (DATA OF ENGLISH)
The article deals with the use of proverbial and phraseological units. Although proverbs and phraseological units are lingual stereotypes originated in the course of long historical development, through their initial general semantics they can be easily adapted by means of transformations for designation of new objects and situations.
Keywords: semantics, proverb, phraseological unit, stereotype, transformation, word-play
Issue: 7, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: Topical Problems of Germanic Philology
Pages: 20 — 24
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