Ways of idiom transformation and modification

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Ekaterina Belozerova

Abstract

The present research focuses on phraseological derivation as an important key source of phraseological language system development and broadening. The study of contemporary British literature for teens and the analyses of the idioms used in literal works of selected and nominated authors let us come to certain conclusions which will be given in the present session. The aim of the present research is to reveal the contemporary ways of phraseological derivation and their speech realization in modern literal texts for teens. The object of the present research is a phraseological way of development in the contemporary phraseological English language system. The subject of the research is the communicative value and characteristics of phraseological derivatives. The results and data which were received will be useful for language instructors and teachers, as well as for further linguistic analyses in this field.


 


Keywords: lexicology, phraseology, idioms, contemporary British literature for teens.


 

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Belozerova, E. (2016). Ways of idiom transformation and modification. Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 6(4), 206–209. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v6i4.1671
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