The Expressiveness and Emotionality Aspects of Phraseological Units in English and Albanian – A Comparative Study
The Expressiveness and Emotionality Aspects of Phraseological Units in English and Albanian – A Comparative Study

Summary/Abstract: The notion of expressiveness and emotionality is commonly related to the general and typical characteristics of phraseological units. The most important linguistic feature of phraseological units is the extent of the units’ motivation, which is undoubtedly related to the notion and degree of emotiveness. As part of the linguistic system of a language, phraseological units are represented in language as units with a clearly expressed function of enriching the communication process with an emotional focus. The article aims to represent the most salient features of the figurative units the meaning of which could not be captured without addressing cultural knowledge. Through the comparative and descriptive analyses of a corpus of 147 phraseological units, the paper tends to investigate the degree of motivation of idioms in the English and Albanian languages and analyze the semantic structure and transformation of idioms in exploring the emotionality and salient features related to idiomaticity, stability, and word-equivalency expressed in different degrees in different phraseological units. The extent of their emotional color and the possibility of revealing the psychological condition of the speaker through the use of phraseological units will be widely discussed in this paper.

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