Paronymic attraction in the process of phraseological transformation in modern French

Abstract

The proposed article is devoted to the description and analysis of the main processes of transformation of phraseological units in modern French. A theoretical assessment of the components of expressive speech and language game is presented, based on examples of the actual manifestation of the reception of paronymic attraction in the language of French media and literary texts. Analysis of the phenomenon of paronymic attraction as one of the tools of the mechanism of language creativity through the prism of semantic and functional aspects determines the relevance and novelty of the study. The aim of the study is to consider the role of the paronymic mechanism of the language in the process of creating texts with additional expressiveness based on the units fixed in the language. An analysis of the main approaches of modern researchers is also given. The examples cited in the text of this article have been collected from various French political publications (Le Figaro, Le Canard enchan), Internet texts, as well as works by B. Vian and J. Prvert.

Keywords

• phraseological units
• paronymic attraction
• paronomasia
• language game
• lexical substitution
• language norm