СЕМАНТИЧНІ ОСОБЛИВОСТІ КОМПАРАТИВНИХ ФРАЗЕМ У РОМАНІ МИРОСЛАВА ДОЧИНЦЯ «ГОРЯНИН»

Abstract

The topicality of our research is caused by the strengthening of interest to the comparative phrasemes in Ukrainian studies and insufficient development of issues related to comparative phraseological unities on the basis of certain author's works in Ukrainian linguistics. The aim of the research is to investigate semantic peculiarities of comparative phraseological units represented in the novel «Highlander» of Transkarpathian Ukrainian writer Myroslav Dochynets. To realize the aim the following tasks were set: to work up the appropriate theoretic sources, devoted to the studying of comparative phraseology; to record the phraseological units of Myroslav Dochynets' novel «Highlander»; to analyze semantic peculiarities of the comparative phrasemes discovered in the novel. The peculiarities of the functioning of the comparative phraseological unities in the novel «Highlander» of Transkarpathian-Ukrainian author Myroslav Dochynets are reviewed in the article. Semantic groups of the author comparative phraseologisms represented in the novel are separated, the most representative of them denote the following: the natural phenomena, human's actions in the relations with others; actions and doings, human's behavior; virtues and qualities of a person; person's physical state; appearance; state of an object, phenomenon; characteristics of an action. Broad functioning of the comparative phrasemes, semantic unity of which is achieved mostly thanks to expressive emotive and evaluative meanings observed.