The specifics of using phraseological units in the artistic prose of V. Pelevin
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The subject of this study is the techniques of individual-author transformation and construction of phraseological units. The object of this research is the language of the artistic prose of V. Pelevin. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the usage, transformation, and creation of authorial phraseological units in the artistic prose of V. Pelevin and to establish their relationship with the writer's idiolect. The article examines the transformations of phraseological units in the prose works of V. Pelevin and the stable combinations and expressions constructed by the writer as a characteristic feature of his idiolect. Special attention is given to studying the specifics of the phraseologisms created by the writer, which go beyond existing scientific classifications. The material for the study includes artistic works by V. Pelevin, covering the period from 2011 to 2024. The study employs methods of analysis, thematic classification, and systematization of linguistic material, contextual analysis, hermeneutic method, and descriptive-analytical method. The methodological framework consists of the works of V. V. Vinogradov, V. N. Telia, A. M. Melerovich, V. M. Mokiienko, N. A. Bozhko, and I. Yu. Tretyakova, dedicated to theoretical issues of transformation of phraseological units. As a result of the study, the specifics of the usage of phraseological units in the prose of V. Pelevin were identified. The main semantic and structural-semantic techniques of individual-author transformations of stable combinations and expressions were examined. It was established that the methods and techniques are more diverse and multifaceted than those in existing scientific classifications. Productive ways of constructing authorial stable combinations and expressions were identified. The main conclusion of the research is that individual-author transformations of phraseological units are a constitutive feature of V. Pelevin's idiolect. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the comprehensive examination and description of the techniques for transforming and creating authorial stable combinations and expressions, as well as the identification of phraseological transformations as one of the characteristic features of V. Pelevin's idiolect.
Source: Litera
Author: Anna Vladimirovna Koveshnikova
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409708071