PHRASEOLOGICAL NEOLOGISMS AND OCCASIONALISMS IN MODERN CZECH LITERATURE (in a novel “Night in Meidlovarna” by czech writer Eva Hauserova )

Abstract

Introduction. Language is stipulated with the operation and interaction between
the traditional, regulatory signs and non-traditional, innovative units in it. Pre-requisites and
consequences of unconventional use of established collocations, as well as the linguistic
potential of phraseological units with the modified form / semantics / context are actively
studied by linguists working in a topical communicative-and-pragmatic field of linguistics.
While the study of the factors, which stipulate the choice of phraseological units in the course
of arranging the formulation, and the motives or reasons of a speaker’s non-compliance with
the established convention while their use, the researchers focus on various communicative areas,
i.e. the areas of phraseological units operation. Phraseological innovation should be deemed,
based on the experience of the major Czech phraseological school, as any transformation,
which makes any deviations from the modern Czech phraseological standard established in
the codification sources obvious in the semantic and / or formal structure of a traditional
phraseological unit. In belles-lettres texts, phraseological units serve as a valuable source of
background information about the national culture and mentality. The writers, in their search
for unique means for expression of their thoughts, attempt to expand the expressive ability of
the phraseological units, therefore they tend to offer the readers the modified variants of them
more and more often. Such creative modification of a phraseological unit makes a text unique
and novel. The paper focuses on determining the idioms and phraseological units transformations
in the novel “Night in Meidlovarna” by Czech writer Eva Hauserová. The paper suggests
the ways of idioms and phraseological units author’s transformations.
Purpose. Comparison of phraseological stock in various languages primarily witnesses
of historical contacts, the unity of geographical territory or – vice versa – of various natural orsocial
circumstances. Comparative analysis of two languages can reveal abundant linguoculturological
and folklore information.

Methods. The research is grounded on the methods of componental analysis, structural
and semantic analysis, and contextual analysis.
Results. The article deals with issues of transformation of Czech phraseological units
in belles-lettres texts and their translation into Ukrainian. Modern Czech literature is rich in
the examples of structural and semantic modifications of the phraseological units. As an example
of author’s interpretation, a novel by Czech writer Eva Hauserova “Night in Meidlovarna” (Nights
at Party Central) has been studied. The collected material enabled to determine how often
the author applied the method of author’s transformation of the Czech phraseological units, how
much the author’s substitution of the phraseological units’ content differs from the commonly
used one, and to identify the methods of phraseological unit transformation in the text. The
article also analyzes the difficulties the interpreter faces while translating the Czech author’s
phraseological units into Ukrainian.