PHRASEOLOGY IN THE ACADEMIC TEXT

Abstract

The article deals with issues of the scope and functional characteristics of phraseological units in the academic texts. The relevance of the research is connected with the need to explore the possibility of using idiomatic phraseology in different types of texts apart from journalistic and fiction works. A short literature review identifies the main areas in which the phraseology of academic speech has been studied and differentiates the study of special and general phraseology. The main part of the article shows idiomatic and proverbial expressions collected from the academic works of Russian philologists and describes lexical, grammatical and stylistic features of idioms. The possibility of transformed use of phraseological units in different types of texts is confirmed, while it is also noted that the same methods of transformation that are used in the other types of texts can be found within the academic works as well. In conclusion the further prospect of a more detailed study of the specifics of the usage of phraseological units in the academic style of speech is indicated.