Quanming, W THE FUNCTIONING OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS KOZIOL OTPUSHHENIJA ‘SCAPEGOAT’ AND DRAT’ KAK SIDOROVU KOZU ‘THRASH LIKE A SIDOROV’S GOAT’　. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2024;46(6):30–35. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2024.1072


Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia

THE FUNCTIONING OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS KOZIOL OTPUSHHENIJA ‘SCAPEGOAT’ AND DRAT’ KAK SIDOROVU KOZU ‘THRASH LIKE A SIDOROV’S GOAT’　

Quanming
Wu 		Volgograd State University
Keywords:
Russian language
phraseological units
zoonyms
functioning of phraseological units
zoonym goat		 Summary: The article deals with relevant issues of studying the functional features of phraseological units with zoonyms. Based on the material of the National Corpus of the Russian language, the phrases kozjol otpushhenija ‘scapegoat’ and drat’ kak sidorovu kozu ‘thrash like a Sidorov’s goat’ with a common zoonymic component goat are analyzed, in order to identify the features of their use in texts of different styles, genres, subjects, the range of objects and actions designated by them. The descriptive method, methods of contextual, discursive analysis, and quantitative calculations are used. It is concluded that the kozjol otpushhenija in modern Russian is more commonly used, predominates in non-fiction texts on political, economic, and social topics, designates an individual, groups of people, public institutions, etc. The unit drat’ kak sidorovu kozu is used more often in literary texts, denotes interpersonal (mostly family) relationships of people. The differences are explained by the meaning, structure, stylistic coloring, degree of expressiveness of phraseological units: the kozjol otpushhenija calls a person by his social role (this role can be extended to any subject of social relations), is characterized by a substantiv structure and is more syntactically free, enters the sphere of literary language; drat’ kak sidorovu kozu designates a person as an object of intense physical influence; it has a verbal structure with a comparative construction, which limits its syntactic roles; it is characterized by expressiveness, national flavor, and colloquial (non-literary) character.



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