Pragmatic aspects of the phraseological combinations of numerology in modern French linguistics

Abstract

In modern linguistics, characterized by an anthropocentric approach to the study of the facts of language and marked by particular attention to the pragmatic and discursive potentials of linguistic units of various levels, many questions about phraseological and paremiological units in the speeches remain to be developed. These questions require clarification and classification. These units also include stable sentences with a numerical component. In this article, phraseological and paremiological (PU) units, not previously studied in a comparative aspect, are analyzed. This article examines the problem of the relationship between the etymological meaning and the internal form of idioms containing a numerological component within the framework of a motivational-comparative analysis. The study deals with the study of the internal form of the numerological phraseological units of the English language. The article reveals the etymological meaning of the numeric components in related idiomatic combinations, which seems relevant in filling and further semantic development. The corpus of the research was composed of phraseological units containing a numerical component extracted from the phraseological dictionaries of the languages. The main symbolic sources of the numeral component in English numerological phraseological units have been determined.