Phraseological Units with the Components Duh, Dusha (Spirit, Soul) in the Prose of 1950–1960 by F. A. Vigdorova
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5008-2026-3-57-69
Abstract
Aim. To determine the role of phraseological units with components duh, dusha (spirit, soul) in the prose of 1950–1960 by F. A. Vigdorova.
Methodology. The article considers phraseological units with components duh, dusha (spirit, soul), used by the writer to create portrait characteristics of the characters of texts, describe their psychological and mental state, expressing the characters’ relationships to each other, as well as to the surrounding reality, using methods of observation and description, targeted sampling, elements of component analysis, interpretation of results.
Results. The study demonstrated that phraseological units with components duh, dusha (spirit, soul) in F. A. Vigdorova,s prose of the 1950s–1960s reflect her pedagogical and ideological views and point to a striking idiostyle feature of the writer's work – the use of colloquial and vernacular vocabulary and phraseology to convey the cultural and national tradition of using these units in the speech of the Soviet people, demonstrating the lives of people in the 1920s–1950s.
Research implications. The research materials help to expand our understanding of the worldview of the original 20th century writer F. A. Vigdorova, and the features of her idiostyle in the artistic space of texts of the 1950s–1960s. The results of the work can be used in university teaching of stylistics, the language of fiction, as well as in author’s lexicography.
About the Author
E. V. Kulicheva
An Independent researcher
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgeniya V. Kulicheva – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Asso . Prof.
Moscow
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