The Way we Talk in our Daily Life (On One Potential Idiom of Russian Speech)

The paper analyses conversational idioms functioning in Russian everyday oral speech and proposes a typology of idioms collected from the corpus of everyday speech “One Speech Day” (created at St. Petersburg State University). The analysis of the corpus material shows that the majority of colloquial idioms can be divided into three groups: the “classical” idioms fixed in the dictionaries (*Id) – 26,4 %, the idiomatic interjections (*IdMezhd) – 24,8 % and the form-idioms (*FId) – 22,4 %. The article reviews the possibility of analyzing colloquial idioms by means of the linguistic survey conducted among the native speakers through the example of a potential idiom (kopeechku stoit nebezumnuju). The results show that this expression is probably the result of the contamination of two idioms: ‘kopejki stoit’’ and ‘bezumnye den’gi’. The commentaries of the philologists concerning the meaning of this unit can be divided into three groups: ‘inexpensive, cheap’ (53,7 %), ‘worth some money’ (a simple statement of value) (16,7 %) and ‘expensive’ (11,1 %) or ‘very expensive’ (18,5 %). The material of the speech corpus contains many examples of such new forms that have already been included in active speech use to varying degrees but still do not have a lexicographic description.

Keywords

idiom, speech corpus, everyday speech, potential idiom, colloquial idiomatics

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12.12.2019

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12.12.2019

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GOST	Liu D. The Way we Talk in our Daily Life (On One Potential Idiom of Russian Speech) // Russkaya Rech’ – 2019. – Issue 6 C. 32-44 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170007623-4-1-en (circulation date: 16.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170007623-4
MLA	Liu, Dayang "The Way we Talk in our Daily Life (On One Potential Idiom of Russian Speech)." Russkaya Rech’ 6 (2019):32-44. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170007623-4
APA	Liu D. (2019). The Way we Talk in our Daily Life (On One Potential Idiom of Russian Speech). Russkaya Rech’ (6), pp.32-44 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170007623-4

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