PHRASEOLOGICAL PUN FUNCTIONING IN THE TITLES OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEN’S MAGAZINES
The article is devoted to the study of ways of creating a pun on the basis of phraseological units. Special attention is paid to the ways of creating a pun based on phraseological units. The authors found that the phraseological pun is formed on the basis of semantic, lexical, syntactic changes in phraseological units, as well as phraseological paranomasia. The authors studied functions of phraseological pun in the headlines of English-language men’s magazines. The article reveals such functions of phraseological units as nominative, informative, advertising, evaluative-expressive, etc. It is established that the context plays an important role in phraseological pun understanding.