Kompetencja frazeologiczna uczniów szkoły podstawowej w zakresie frazeologizmów zoonimicznych
Idiomatic Competence of Primary School Pupils (On the Example of Idioms with Component Named Animal)

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at showing the ways of functioning of selected phrases in the language of young people. This article shows the elementary changes of structure selected idioms. Among excerpted items it is possible to mark out the following idiomatic innovations: replaces, adjusts, replaces and adjusts, contaminates. The semantic analysis covers pupil’s interpretations of idioms with component named animal. With the use of the principles of cognitive grammar, semantic structures of these phrases have been constructed. Dictionary definitions are the starting point for the assessment of the ways of understanding the meaning. Owing to the semantic analysis, the following interpretations of meanings have been specified: concretizations, generalisations, dephraseologisations, defining one phrase with the use of another one (not always semantically identical).

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