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Об использовании библейских фразеологизмов в разговорном стиле современного русского языка
The use of biblical idioms in colloquial variety of modern Russian language

Author(s): Eugenia Maksimowicz
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: colloquial style; oral variety of language; biblical idioms; belles-lettre

Summary/Abstract: Biblical idioms quite often penetrate into our language, bringing the sublime spirituality and informative value. Numerous phrases and quotations taken from the Bible, fixed in the form of well-known sayings, maxims, are commonly used in everyday language. Idioms of biblical origin also function in the colloquial style of language, both in its various oral and written forms, for example, in the dialog statements in literary and journalistic texts, participating in the process of characterization of literary figures as a stylistic medium.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 213-221
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian