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Published/ publié in Res Militaris (resmilitaris.net), vol.12, n°3-November issue (2022)
Specifics of phraseological units functioning in English public 
discourse on the material of Youtube platform 
By 
Karina A. Bashkirova 
Department of Theory and Practice of Teaching Foreign Languages, Institute of Philology 
and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University, 2 Tatarstan str., Kazan, 420021, 
Russian Federation Scopus
Igor O. Gurianov 
Department of Romance and Germanic Department, Institute of Philology and Intercultural 
Communication, Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation, Scopus 
Radif R. Zamaletdinov 
Department of General Linguistics and Turkology, Institute of Philology and Intercultural 
Communication, Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation, Scopus 
Natasha Anthony 
Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York,
Scopus ID:
35973416800
Abstract 
Discourse is one of the most understudied area in linguistics. It has a specific 
meaning and function in various areas of science, in linguistics there are three models of 
correlation in discourse and text. The main research problem of discourse is the absence of 
strict borders between different types of discourse. We single out public discourse as one 
of the broadest types of discourse the main feature of it is the coverage of the audience. 
Considering this feature of the public discourse we took the material of study from the 
biggest video hosting platform Youtube. Phraseological units are sophisticated lexical 
components of any language that have semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic functions. This 
article is an attempt to make a quantitative analysis of phraseological units that belong to 
different stylistic layers (formal and informal) and the way they are used in public 
discourse. Quantitative analysis allowed researchers to describe a distribution of 
phraseological units in topical areas.