COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN A JOURNALISTIC TEXT

Abstract

. The work gives an analysis of the cognitive structure of the space of a text which is formed through functioning of transformed variants of Russian idioms of various origins and different solidity of components. The cognitive structure of a text can be defined as a kind of context, determined as a result of the formation of boundaries that affect the mechanisms of combining linguistic elements into units of a higher level. Such boundaries arise at all linguistic levels, including the journalistic text. The structural determination of the text correlates with the context in which the mutual influence of the components does not affect the units of a higher level, which can be observed by the example of phraseological transformations as a kind of context at the level of associative connections between the components. The mass media is characterized by the constant identification of emotionally expressive and evaluative methods of forming an information flow, which facilitates the appeal to phraseological units as specific linguistic structures that correspond to requirements of a journalist’s speech-thinking activity. The modification of stable linguistic structures is most clearly carried out in the headline complex of newspaper material, in which the intra-textual connections of participants in the communicative process are manifested by approaches to the image of linguistic units at the stage of speech perception. These linguistic signs generate a large amount of information about the nominative side of the units, about the existential qualities of the described object, phenomenon, process, quality, etc., subjective assessment and passionate characteristics.