FRAZEOLOGIZMY V JAZYKU SLOVENSKÉHO HISTORICKÉHO ROMÁNU
Phraseologisms In The Language Of The Slovak Historical Novel

Summary/Abstract: In her paper the author focuses on the analysis of the application of phraseology in a three-volume novel Svätopluk by Milan Ferko. She points to Ferko's intention to make the tradition of Great Moravia more popular also by linguistic means, namely, by the use of phraseological units to achieve a more detailed colouring of the story. The foregrounding of the historical is signalled by the changes of the word forms and their meaning through transformations of phraseological units in which the primary meaning is modified. Creative invention of the writer is manifested in his technique of innovating traditional phraseological units. They are substituted with semantically freer variants, preferring the ones with expressive components. In addition to the phraseological units with considerable level of expressivity, the writer uses common colloquial phraseological units, similes, sayings as well as semantically void connections of words. Functional use of phraseological units, as well as of their modifications, is a result of Ferko’s in-depth knowledge of the phraseological richness of the Slovak language and his awareness of its linguistic dynamism.

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