PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH GASTRONOMIC COMPONENTS IN MODERN ENGLISH
Keywords:
phraseology, English phraseological units, gastronomic components, semantics, idioms, pragmatic functionsAbstract
This article analyzes English phraseological units with gastronomic components from a semantic and pragmatic perspective. The study aims to identify the main semantic groups of food-based idioms and explain how their figurative meanings develop from culinary images. The research is based on the phraseological theory of A. V. Kunin and other scholars using qualitative semantic analysis. The results show that gastronomic phraseological units in English are associated with meanings such as ease, livelihood, secrecy, regret, and evaluation. The study concludes that food-based idioms are an expressive and productive part of English phraseology and perform important stylistic and evaluative functions.
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