CONCEPT ‘CONFLICT’ IN A CORPUS MEASUREMENT OF IDIOMS

Abstract

Purpose. The article deals with the analysis of conflict conceptualization in the English idioms as based on the material of the data obtained from the British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English. Methodology. The methods of research have become corpus and semantic analysis. Results. In semantics of idioms, the figurative perception of conflict is reflected, as well as its conceptual content is revealed in contexts of use. Conflict is represented as a competition, dispute, conflict of objectives, values, views. The conflict has different stages of development (beginning, process, end), can be described as short-term and long-term. The cause of the conflict can be aspiration for political influence, victory, agreement, manifestation of character and persistence. The corpus approach revealed the combination peculiarities of idioms in contexts, as well as the additional values that are not fixed in the dictionary and the frequency of idioms use. Practical implications. The results of research can be used for making bilingual phraseological dictionaries, in courses on corpus linguistics and phraseology.

Keywords

• конфликт
• английские идиомы
• семантика
• корпусный анализ
• контексты