Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

3.3. SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS BY PROF. V.N.TELIYA

• The semantic structure of PUs is formed by semantic ultimate constituents called macrocomponents of meaning:
• 1. Denotational (descriptive) macrocomponent contains the information about the objective reality, it is the procedure connected with categorization, i.e. the classification of phenomena of the reality, based on the typical idea about what is denoted by a PU.

2. Evaluation macrocomponent contains the information about the value of what is denoted by a PU.

• 2. Evaluation macrocomponent contains the information about the value of what is denoted by a PU.
• The rational evaluation may be:
• positive, e.g. a home from home – ‘a place or situation where one feels completely happy and at ease’;
• negative, e.g. the lion’s den – ‘a place of great danger’;
• neutral, e.g., in the flesh – ‘in bodily form’.