Phraseological Units in Folk Epics Methodological Description

Abstract

Despite the fact that phraseological units serve both the linguistic expressiveness and the active representation of national culture and at the same time their methodological description is still poorly implemented in global and Uzbek linguistics. There are studies of both functional and stylistic features of phraseologisms in Uzbek linguistics, but still there is no methodological classification and analysis of phraseologisms in folk epic genres of Uzbek linguistics. The current focus of studies around isolated examples or artistic texts has evidenced the absence of continued principled systematic description at the world level of analysis, rendering unresolved semantic-pragmatic relation issues, stylistic variability, and connotation processes. The purpose of this study is to examine the methodological features of phraseological units in folk epics, based on the criteria of emotionality, expressiveness, figurativeness and structural complexity, to recommend their classification. It has been established that phraseological units have two meanings, expressive-evaluative and functional-stylistic; the structure of phraseological units is dominated by emotionality and expressiveness. The explicit specificity of means is specified in the connotation, relations between components, and stylistic coloring of the theoretical analysis of these means. The paper presents a systematic definition of methodological description, and highlights the anthropocentric and semantic-pragmatic dimensions of the field, while also questioning the traditional dependence on component analysis, by bringing in the connotative stylistic criterion. Formalising principles of classifying and interpreting phraseological units in Uzbek folk epics these insights provide important contributions to lexicographic and phraseographic practices, enriches development of linguistic theory, and is of relevance to educational applications.