Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

5. Stylistic macrocomponent points to the communicative register in which a PU is used and to the social-role relationships between the participants of communication:

• 5. Stylistic macrocomponent points to the communicative register in which a PU is used and to the social-role relationships between the participants of communication:
• formal, e.g. sick at heart – ‘very sad’;
• informal, e.g. be sick to death – ‘to be angry and bored because something unpleasant has been happening for too long’;
• neutral, e.g. pass by on the other side – ‘to ignore a person who needs help’.

6. Grammatical macrocomponent contains the information about all possible morphological and syntactic changes of a PU, e.g. to be in deep water = to be in deep waters;

• 6. Grammatical macrocomponent contains the information about all possible morphological and syntactic changes of a PU, e.g. to be in deep water = to be in deep waters;
• to take away smb’s breath = to take smb’s breath away;
• Achilles’s heel = the heel of Achilles.