UDC

811.133.1

Authors

Taisiya I. Skorobogatova
Southern Federal University;
per. Universitetskiy 93, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russian Federation;
e-mail: skorobogatova@sfedu.ru

Abstract

Research on the national specificity of phraseology by distinguishing thematic groups of phraseological units and analysing their composition is becoming increasingly important in linguistics and lexicography. This article is devoted to the analysis of French phraseological units containing names of musical instruments, which are an important part of musical heritage, amounting to over one thousand instruments in the world. Phraseological units of many different national languages include names of musical instruments. The modern French language contains 25 names of musical instruments serving as the core components of French phraseological units: accordéon, basson, caisse, castagnette, clarinette, contrebasse, cornemuse, cor, fifre, flûte, grelot, guitare, harmonica, harpe, hautbois, luth, lyre, mandoline, musette, orgue, piano, pipeau, tambour, trompette, violon. The above list proves that the repertoire of names of musical instruments in French phraseological units is rather extensive. Having applied the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification, the author found that the largest group of musical instrument names in French phraseological units is represented by aerophones i.e. wind instruments (13 names), while the smallest group, by membranophones (2 names). Such predominance of names of aerophones in phraseological units can be explained by the fact that wind instruments are of great antiquity. In conclusion, the author has proved it possible to consider phraseological units with musical instrument names in their composition as special elements of both historical and cultural memory and of world musical heritage.

Keywords

French language, phraseology, French phraseological units, musical instrument, aerophones, membranophones

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