Phraseologism and its modification

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Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2019. Volume 4. No. 5. pp. 509-513.

Authors

Gataullin R. G.*
Bashkir State University
32 Zaki Validi Street, 450076 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Abstract

Phraseological units have expressiveness, figurativeness, metaphoricity. Therefore, they are used in the so-called “strong positions”: they are in the headings, in the initial (first) and final (final) parts of the text. Expressivity intensifies when phraseology is modified.

Keywords

  • idiom
  • modification
  • imagery
  • expressiveness
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