A LANGUAGE GAME WITH PRECEDENT PHENOMENA

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 7, 90 - 95, 30.04.2017

Ksenia Balysheva Elena Romanova Maria Romanova

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.309490

Abstract

This
paper is devoted to a language game with precedent phenomena. By precedent phenomena
the authors mean well-known texts, easily recognized and reproduced in the
minds of native speakers. This paper describes precedent phenomena of a
phraseological level such as set
expressions, idioms, proverbs. These elements are
often transformed to draw the addressee’s attention and serve as the basis for
creating a language game. A language game refers to the intentional breach of
habitual use of words and set expressions which demonstrates the author’s
creative ability to deviate from the normative and stereotypical use. The
purpose of this deviation is to express the additional denotative and
connotative meanings.

The
materials of the research include texts of modern fictional prose, mass media
and advertisements. The methods of contextual, semantic and structural analysis
were used to discover the types of precedent phenomena transformation. The main
types of precedent phenomena transformations include the following: 1) change
of size of a precedent phenomenon; 2) change of structure of a precedent
phenomenon; 3) formation based on an analogy, according to a commonly known
model; 4) transformation of elements of set expressions without replacing them;
5) transformation of meaning based on polysemy and homonymy of elements.

The
given types of transformation specify and specialize semantically the original set expressions, proverbs, phraseological units to fit them into a
certain situation. It is the author’s individual interpretation that the transformed set expressions,
phraseological units and proverbs acquire emotional-evaluative connotations,
produce additional influence effects on the reader and convey a wide range of emotions.

Keywords

language game, precedent phenomena, set expression, phraseological unit, transformation

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