Езикова игра при фразеологизмите в сборника „Уж“ на Димитър Воденичаров
Phraseological Language Play in “Uzh” – A Collection of Dimitar Vodenicharov’s Literary Works

Summary/Abstract: The present article is devoted to the phraseological language play found in Uzh – a collection of Dimitar Vodenicharov’s literary works. The collection consists of texts that are specific in terms of genre and that contain all types of language play, as summarized by T. A. Gridina. According to Gridina the creative function of language play can be based on three main principles: allusive, imitative, and figurative-heuristic. The analysis focuses on various phraseological transformations (modifications): structural, structural-semantic, and semantic, resulting in a double interpretation of the original phraseological unit (the so-called “prototype”). Following Nicheva, phraseological units are considered in their narrower sense. In view of the specificity of the observed transformations, the following research methods are applied: descriptive-analytical, structural, and contextual-semantic. The article concludes that phraseological language play is a feature specifically and systematically used in the construction of the texts from the analyzed collection (Vodenicharov is also the author of several other books, including Phraseological Novel). Generally, the conclusions reached refer to the level and specificity of the modern person’s thinking, who is capable of encoding and decoding multi-layered texts and making associative connections based on his or her background knowledge about native and world cultures, history, and ways of life.

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