Semantičke specifičnosti frazema
Semantic Specifics of the Phrase

Summary/Abstract: Phrases as units of meaning are entirely reproduced in speech and they perform a specific function in sentence as any other lexeme. The specificity of phrases is in the fact that the informational value is not equal to individual number of denotative or connotative characteristics of phraseological constituents, but the phrase as encoded set of words is realizing a specific function of linguistic macro-sign. More detailed meaning of phrases is realized in extended part of Ogden Richard’s meaningful triptych (lexeme-meaning-denotatum), the part which we call the knowledge of the world. Background knowledge of phrases is enriching the information, but also, relating to social (or factual) function of language, phrases indicate significant possibilities in maintenance of the unity within some social group (functional styles) with the reference that most of the phrases are exactly those which are equally represented in different social levels.

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