Phraseological units in American and Russian governmental blogs

Abstract

© 2016, Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved.The article is devoted to transformed phraseological units studies implied in mass media, particularly, in blogs. Using materials of American and Russian governmental blogs we studied modified variants of phraseologisms, described mechanisms of transformations and made up a classification of transformations. Special attention is given to deviations of semantical stability within the structure of phraseological units and to transformations which appear when such deviations occur.