Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

Gender macrocomponent may be expressed implicitly and then it denotes the historical reference of a phraseological unit: to wash one’s dirty linen in public. The implicit idea about traditional women’s work (cf. with Russian: выносить сор из избы).

• Gender macrocomponent may be expressed implicitly and then it denotes the historical reference of a phraseological unit: to wash one’s dirty linen in public. The implicit idea about traditional women’s work (cf. with Russian: выносить сор из избы).
• The implicit gender macrocomponent is defined within the range of three conceptual spheres: masculine, feminine, intergender.
• Cf. the implicitly expressed intergender macrocomponent in to feel like royalty meaning ‘to feel like a member of the Royal Family, to feel majestic’ and its counterparts, i.e. phraseological units with explicitly expressed gender macrocomponent, to feel like a queen and to feel like a king.