Respondent
Theme
Expressive and Communicative Phraseology of Modern German in the Internet-Texts.
Defence Date
Annotation
Thesis for a Candidate’s Degree in Philology, Speciality 10.02.04 – Germanic Languages.
– Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine,
Lviv, 2016.
In the thesis traditional approaches to the study of expressive and communicative
idioms are evaluated. The definition of phraseological expressives and communicatives is
given and their description as a unifed functional-semantic field is argued. They are
demarcated of related phenomena and crossing zones are described.
The lexicographical representation of expressive and communicative phraseological
units of German is analized and their lexicographical selection is carried out. Differences
of the basic forms (units with sentence structure or verbal idioms) are pointed out.
The conclusion is made as follows: the functional-semantic field of phraseological
expressives and communicatives of Modern German in the speakers’ mind is represented
by a fragment of lexical-semantic system of language with thesaurus taxonomic structure,
numerous hyperlinks and diffuse intertwining areas. An appropriate classification scheme
of phraseological expressives and communicatives of Modern German was developed.
According to the theory of interpersonal communication phraseological
communicatives as the units with defined speech intentions are divided into functional
groups of productive and unproductive communication styles. Necessitated by the failure
of setting a discrete boundary in all cases between phraseological units with expressive
semantic dominant and only communicative function an ambivalent transition zone of
expressive and communicative featured idioms is defined, which makes a quantitatively
significant part of the studied empirical language material.
Linguo-cultural analysis was applied in order to discover national cultural
component of semantics of phraseological expressives and communicatives of German. As
a result units with cultural symbolic component, as well as phrases with the «obscured»
authorship and phrases, which reflect national and cultural realities of various spheres of
national life are determined. The peculiarities of their usage in discourse are stated.
The capability of the Internet as a linguistic corpus is determined. The advantages of
use of this method in the phraseological studies are highlighted and the limits are outlined.
The frequency of use of German expressive and communicative idioms is analysed with
the help of the search engine Google. The possibility of applying this method in the
phraseographic projects is argued. Data of Internet search were to be verified by written
survey of native speakers. The results for the frequency groups were comparable with the
data search in the Internet. The Internet as a corpus proved to be consistent and reflects the
functioning of phraseological units as close as possible to the real language.
Combination of features of speech and writing in the Internet-texts is explained by
the specific parameters of communication channel and medium; by their action a particular
media variant of language is formed, which displays specific phonetic-graphic, lexical and
grammatical features.
A special attention is paid to the ability of Internet communication generally and
functioning of phraseological expressives and communicatives in particular to much more
frequent combination of visual and verbal channels of information due to the technological
features of the network as well to the inextricably linked to this phenomenon double
actualization both of literal and significant idiomatic reading of phraseological units,
whose potential is much wider than in traditional print media.
While analyzing the functioning of expressive and communicative phraseological
units of German in different genre formats in online discourse, it was concluded about the
universal nature of their creative use, appeal and entertainment functions.
The expressive and communicative idioms of German are considered as precedent
phenomena that convey folk humor, express common emotional-evaluative picture of the
world. Expecially the core of researched functional-semantic field (units’ groups with high
and medium frequency of use) acquires in the analyzed genres of Internet communication
effect of «discursive added value» and contributes to the creation of cognitive-ideological
framework of the German linguistic culture.
Key words: German, phraseology, phraseological unit, linguistic corpus, Internet
discourse, pragmatic idioms, phraseological expressives and communicatives, recurrence,
illocutive function, conceptual spoken and written language, precedent phenomenon.