Фразеология в дискурсе языковой личности (на материале рассказов Н. А. Тэффи)
Phraseology in the Discourse of a Linguistic Personality (Based on N. Teffi’s Short Stories)

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of phraseological units as parts of the system and the discourse of a literary character’s linguistic personality. As the practical material under study were chosen N. Teffi’s short stories Strong as Death, Easter Child, and Causes and Consequences, which mark different stages of the writer’s oeuvre. The aim of the research was the identification of Teffi’s main strategies with regard to the forms of verbal production as well as providing a description of the function of phraseological units depending on the possible intentions and types of the speaking subject. The analysis is made in accordance with the way in which phraseologisms were distributed through the composition and speech structures of the chosen texts. Teffi uses a unique set of strategies in each of the stories. For instance, texts with the dominance of author’s monologue tend to dissolve the author into the character’s conscious or to hide the author behind a mask. In that case, idioms generally utilize the double set of strategies for both the “surface” and the “deep” sender.

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