LEXICAL SUBSTITUTION AS A WAY OF TRANSFORMING PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN PUBLICISTIC WORKS OF E. I. NOSOV
One of the types of structural-semantic transformations of phraseological units is the replacement of set combinations' components. The subject of this article is this type of transformation of FU (phraseological units) in publicistic works of E. I. Nosov. Lexical variants of FU in publicistic works of E. Nosov are stated during the research more than 30 times. The substitution of individual components of FU refers to the quality transformations (opposed to quantitative ones - reduction and explication) and it is the most common method of transformation of phraseological units in speech. All cases of lexical substitutions in E. Nosov's prose can be grouped into several groups. 1. Substitution with a component - an absolute or stylistic synonym: тем временем - тем чередом. 2. Substitution of a component with a similar one, but with a different connotation: дух времени - дух современности. 3. Substitution of a component with a contextual synonym: вставать на ноги - вставать на лапы. 4. FU variants can be generated with the help of a lexeme as an FU component that is used in defining the FU: для ровного счета - для круглого счета. 5. Substitution with a component with a different meaning while maintaining the general meaning of the FE: до боли в сердце - до зубной боли. Thus, lexical variants of FU demonstrate word by word decomposability of phraseological units, which is reflected in the mind of the author and is expressed verbally in the FU variants he uses. The differences in the semantics of synonymous lexemes and lexemes of the same theme are "leveled" in the general meaning of FE variants. The method of lexical variation is used by the author to update the inner form of the phraseological unit, realize its inherent expressiveness, specify or blur its meaning.