THE CONSTRUCTIVE CHARACTER OF PHRASEOLOGICAL COMBINATIONS: SPECIFICS OF SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to description of a comparative analysis of Russian set phrases так или иначе and как бы то ни было and their textual functions. It is shown that the combinations function as a text staple, a constructive element of a text structure in the position of the beginning of the utterance. It is proved that the defining criteria for the concept of “construction” proposed by A.F. Priyatkina can be used more broadly to describe text blocks formed by combinations. The structure of such textual constructions, the specifics of the lexical and semantic content of the components are described, the general meaning of the structures is determined, as well as the components of semantics and the features of the pragmatics that determine the specifics of the constructions are identified. The components of the meaning так или иначе, affecting the general semantics of the construction, is the disjunction relation embedded in the conjunction или. For the combination как бы то ни было, the essential semantics of the verb is the leading one, the idea of choice is absent in the construction. The anaphoric function of the pronoun acts as an organizing element of textual constructions based on как бы то ни было. As a result of the analysis, the possibility of using the contextual analysis technique to identify the specifics of synonymously close units is shown.