DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF MILITARY PHRASEOLOGY IN TEXTS OF MILITARY SPHERE

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of phraseology of the military sphere of modern English (1800 – 2019) using a corpus analysis tool such as Google Ngram Viewer. As a result of the analysis using this tool, it was found that some of the phraseological units recorded as typical or often used in dictionary sources are gradually falling out of use in the current historical time (2000 – 2010). Other phraseological units, on the contrary, in the same historical period begin (often rapidly) to gain use. When using the diagrammatic method, it becomes clear that in a number of cases an increase or decrease in the frequency of use of phraseological units of military topics is associated with socio-political events and cataclysms. In particular, in a number of cases, a correlation was noted between the increase in the frequency of the use of military phraseology in literature and the period of world wars, as well as modern wars. Consequently, the proposed analysis method is able to demonstrate a visual dynamics of phraseological development in a language, in particular, in the military substandard variety of English.