Phraseology of Emotions and Emotive Phraseological Units in Global English
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https://doi.org/10.69760/jales.2026003001Keywords:
phraseology of emotions, emotive component, linguocultural coordinates, subcultural identification lexeme, irony; argotAbstract
This article is dedicated to the investigation of emotive phraseological units in global English. The corpus of phraseological units in terms of emotiveness, just as in the case of lexemes, is divided into two unequal parts — the phraseology of emotions and emotive phraseology. A total of 1971 phraseological units were analyzed, extracted using a continuous sampling method from the idiomatic dictionary. There are 797 units denoting emotions in the material, or 40.4% of the total. Emotive phraseological units are a set of phraseological units with emotional meaning; they represent a special type of unit that expresses the emotional attitude and emotional state of a person. Phraseologisms of emotions are characterized by a predominance of units of a procedural nature, and the process, as a rule, involves active action or influence. Emotive phraseological units, like argotic phraseology in general, are characterized by the dominance of units of procedural semantics. The ratio of non-procedural to procedural phraseological units is 1:4, which indicates the active manifestation of the emotional attitude expressed by argotic phraseology.
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