The peculiarities of functioning of phraseological units with a lexical unit “devil” in “The Ukrainian Tales” by N. V. Gogol (in the translation of R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky): usage and central meanings.
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue
Abstract
Gogol's phraseology does not coincide with the modern language system in all the aspects: some expressions are obsolete, their stylistic color, the number of values, etc. have changed, what makes phraseological units in the first cycles by Gogol an interesting object of research. Besides, the writer spoke in the language of images, which resulted in a large number of individually-authored phraseological expressions, which sometimes require separate explanations. We have chosen 141 phraseological units with so-called “demonological” components – lexical units “devil”, “evil”, “unclean”, “satan”, ”hell”, “witch”, “hag” and others. 123 of them are connected with the mentioning of devil, which is no wonder in the context of romantic two-worldness of these collections of short-stories. They were used as expressive-estimative characteristics of people, things and events and the greater part has negative connotation as it is used as scornful characteristic, damnations and curses, refusals, denials, expression of gate-crashers, evil events and unpleasantries, cloven hoofs and connection with unclean forces, devildom and etc. All these phraseological units are stylistically colored, they add conciseness and originality to Gogol’s turn of phrase. Demonologic elements of phraseological units in “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” and “Mirgorod” are, to our mind, caused by national character of the cycles, folk beliefs and pagan-Christian beliefs, depicted by the author, by images and motives composing these fictional works.
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А. К. Павельєва
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