The range of means of expressing a semantic subject in French phraseological units

Chervony Aleksandr Mikhailovich

The article focuses on the analysis of the range of the means of expression of the semantic subject in French phraseological units. In the article, special attention was paid to the indirect expression of the semantic subject by phraseological units. The article analyses the images inherent in the French language consciousness when nominating a semantic subject, identifies the ways of its indirect designation, defines and differentiates the connotation inherent in a particular phraseological unit of the French language. The formation of an indirect, phraseological expression of the subject is based on the processes of metaphorization and metonymization.

Keywords:phraseology, a semantic subject, the range, metonymy, metaphor, connotation