ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМИТЕ СО КУЛИНАРСКИ ЕЛЕМЕНТИ ВО МЕДИУМСКА УПОТРЕБА
PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH CULINARY TERMS IN THE MASS MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: The phraseological units make the everyday communication very „pictorial“, and bring life to the language of newspapers and electronic media. Considering the fact that the communication nowadays is generally performed via internet, the high frequency of the phraseologisms used in this media is expected and logical. The internet is full of written and spoken texts, notifications and reports issued by institutions and official media houses the language of which belongs to the publicistic style, as well as unofficial blogs and forums that generally use the conversational style. The culinary lexis is an interesting field for linguistic and cultural researches, and large number of phraseological units uses components taken from this field in order to express various aspects, considering the fact that food is a crucial surviving element and it represents a signifier of an ethnic, national, class or gender identity. This paper discusses the phraseological units that contain culinary elements as integral components (products, types of food and other items related with the food preparation). Their usage is being illustrated with interesting examples excerpted from various texts found on internet. These examples offer a possibility to record the meaning of the phraseologisms and its changes, structure variations intended to intensify the power of expression and its attractiveness, as well as to register occurrences of some new phraseological combinations.

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