Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology

Uzbekistan State World Languages University
MA course “ Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology” // Tukhtakhoidjaeva Z.T.

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SEMINAR 10: Interjectional and modal PhUs
Topics for discussion:

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  Interjectional phraseological units and their structural and semantic features
  
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  The functions of interjections in speech
  
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  Modality as a speaker's or a writer's attitude towards the extralinguistic reality
  
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  Types of phraseological modality
  
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  Semantic fields of modality
  

Task 1: Answer the following question

1. 
   What is an interjection as a part of speech?
   
2. 
   What is the difference between interjectional and modal PhUs? Give examples
   
3. 
   What functions are performed by interjectional PhUs?
   
4. 
   What phraseosemantic groups can include interjections?
   
5. 
   What structural types of interjectional and modal PhUs do you know?
   

Task 2: Translate the following PhUs into Uzbek or Russian:

No	Interjections	Translation
	That’s a boy!
	Sakes alive!
	What’s up?
	For heaven’s sake!
	That’s the ticket!

Task 3. Analyse and classify the following PhUs accordingly :

No	PhUs	V.V. Vinogradov	N.N.Amosova	A.V.Kunin
	cake and ale
	a skeleton in the cupboard
	a marriage of convenience
	to blow one’s own trumpet
	the game is not worth the candle

Task 4: Choose the correct phraseological unit to fill in the gaps in the sentences below and define their functions:

dark horse, to work like a dog, sour grapes, to lord it over, Achilles heel, to put one’s cards on the table, red tape, to see smb in the flesh, fat cats, around the clock

1. 
   Workers are losing their jobs while the … who run the company are getting richer.
   
2. 
   Stuart’s getting married? He’s a … - I never even knew he had a girlfriend.
   
3. 
   He was a gifted businessman, but greed was his … .
   
4. 
   If I criticize her book, people will think it’s just… .
   
5. 
   There’s so much … involved in getting a visa.
   
6. 
   Doctors and nurses worked … to help people injured in the train crash.
   
7. 
   She thought it was time … and tell him that she had no intention of marrying him.
   
8. 
   He likes … the more junior stuff in the office.
   
9. 
   I knew his face so well from the photos that it felt a bit strange when I finally … .
   
10. 
    He … all day to finish the wallpapering.
    

Task 5: Find in Google 5 modal phraseological units expressing volition and use them in sentences of your own:

No	Modal PhUs	Example of usage