PHRASEOLOGY SERVES AS A TOOL FOR LINGUISTIC COMPRESSION IN MODERN DISCOURSE

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the specific functioning of phraseological units in the news texts of modern media. The compression function of phraseological units in media discourse is analyzed based on the publications of the largest news agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom in the social network Twitter. The very nature of phraseology implies semantic compression: the meanings expressed initially by free word combinations are transformed into permanent semantic units, making the expression fixed. The use of set phrases in the texts of news publications not only reduces the volume of statements without loss of meaning, but also complements their semantics with verbally unexpressed nation and culture-bound realities and symbols. The ability of phraseological units to convey the symbolic, evaluative and cultural meanings embedded in their semantics allows the phraseology of military origin to perform a compressive function in media discourse, reducing the publication to the volumes required by the social network Twitter. Thanks to a phraseological unit possessing the symbolic potential and imagery as a special sign of language and culture, the set phrases in the news publications on the social network Twitter clearly demonstrate the orientation to influence the consciousness of the mass recipient, as a text-forming factor of the language of mass media.