Abstract

Phraseological units – there is one of the most controversial problems in modern phraseology. This article presents the results of studying the main pragmatic functions of phraseological units in modern English. The relevance of the research lies in the urgent need to differentiate regular pragmatic functions in English phraseology. The aim of the work is to analyze the functions of phraseological units based on the British National Corpus (BNC) and assess their quantitative ratios. The theoretical basis of the research is the phraseological concept of A.V. Kunin.

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  • Phraseological units – there is one of the most controversial problems in modern phraseology

  • The main method of sampling phraseological units from the linguistic continuum and their semantic analysis is the method of phraseological identification, which was proposed by the founder of English phraseology as a branch of linguistics and as an independent scientific discipline, Professor A.V

  • The point is that the problem of functioning of phraseological units is considered to be one of the most discussed problems in modern phraseology

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Phraseological units – there is one of the most controversial problems in modern phraseology.

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