Phrasemicone of the work by Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk «Do the oxen roar as the mangers are full?»: the ethnolinguistic aspect

Abstract

The phrasemicon of the novel by Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk, «Do the oxen roar as the mangers are full», totals more than 750 units, including proverbs and sayings, comparisons, curses, and phraseology itself. Central to it are the units of somatic cultural code, the figurative concretizers of which are the tokens side, devil, age, hair, mouth, ears, head (13 FD), voice (3), palm, soul (8), belly (2), veins, fat, teeth (9), bone, blood, step, face, nose (5), leg (6), eyes (10), finger (3), liver, sweat, ribs, mouth, heart (4), tears, back, tongue. The most functionally loaded of these are the words head, soul, teeth, leg, eyes. It is noted that many phrases of this code characterize the social status of ordinary people, that is, they serve as a means of social character of the actors, depressing their psychological state in the unbearable oppression of the peasants before and during the reform of 1861, which is specific to the social and psychological novel. Above all, this applies to phraseologists with figurative heads and teeth, through which the novel characterizes the internal depressed state of an entire community or one person. Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk use head-dominant phrases to characterize the Chipka-rebel. Phraseologisms with a soul component are often used to nominate sincere love, eyes are a reproduction of gaze features.To illustrate the mental state of a person, Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk accumulate phraseological units in one expression, use the same phrase in artistic discourse several times (from 2 to 9), varying verb forms, using stable combinations of words with a fraction not and without it. Often, writers use lexical variants of phraseology, the choice of which is likely to be related to the individual preferences of the authors or the focus on live folk language.