PAREMIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMANTS AS THE MEANS OF EXPANSION OF PAREMIOLOGICAL SPACE

Abstract

The article discusses issues of variability and modifications of paremiological units in the German language. The authors focus on paremiological transformants that expand the boundaries of the paremiological space and provide relevant material for specialists working on the problems of discourse analysis, since the scope of these units is media, art, and religious discourses. Religious discourse acts as a source of the transformants that are studied in the proposed material. The article analyzes aspects related to the structural and semantic organization of paremiological transformants. Unlike paremias, paremiological transformants are dependent on the situation since the modification is realised in a certain context; these units act as one of the means in the language game. Transformation of paremias is due to their active use by native speakers. The task of the article is to analyze the functioning of paremiological transformants.