RATIO OF HYPERBOLA IN THE ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF QUANTITATIVENESS
The article analyses the English phraseological units realizing hyperbolic semantics. The author identifies the determinants of hyperbola in the analysed phraseological units and for the first time correlates hyperbolic phraseological units with the subfields of the functional-semantic field of quantitativeness: “full set” category, i.e. the full number, “empty set”, i.e. zero number, and the “incomplete set” category. Such an approach based on correlation of linguistic and cognitive categories allows identifying the dependence of hyperbola’s expressiveness level on its quantitative correlation.