Characteristics of Functional-Semantic Field "Money" with Phraseological Units

Abstract

Phraseological units are defined as complex and multidimensional phenomena. They represent the word-groups that cannot be freely made up in speech but are reproduced as ready-made units. Being emotionally coloured units, phraseological expressions are rich in attitudinal connotations. The English is abundant in money-related phraseological units, widely used in the media, fiction and didactic literature both in Great Britain and in the USA.The article is devoted to the peculiarities of functioning of the functional-semantic field “money” with phraseological units in the English language. Special attention is paid to the emotional colouring of phraseologisms and to the connotations evoked in the process of communication. The phraseological units are classified according to extralinguistic principle. The following microfields are idenfied and considered: „Wealth”, „Poverty”, „Money Spending”, and „Bribe”. For our research, we extracted 100 phraseological units from different dictionaries, analyzed them with the respect to such important aspects as meaning, structure and variation and provided several examples of phraseological units used in literary texts. For our contribution, we have consulted the works of different linguists who carried out the research on the theme such as scholars Sh. Bally, A .Cowie, A. Rey, L. Smith, A. Kunin, A. Smirnitsky, N. Amosova, N. Telia, V. Vinogradov.