PHRASELOGY IN POETIC LANGUAGE OF K.F. RYLEEV

The paper considers the previously unexplored aspects of the poetic language of K.F. Ryleev: phraseological units used by him, their quantitative-qualitative characteristics (in comparison with other writers), literary functions that eventually cause the relevance of this topic. The research method is based on the material of alphabetic-frequency dictionaries of the language of Russian poets (A.I. Polezhaev, A.A. Delvig, N.P. Ogarev, N.M. Yazykov, P.A. Vyazemsky, D.V. Davydov, E.A. Baratynsky, N.M. Karamzin, D.V. Venevitinov, K.F. Ryleev) published by the authors. In particular, it is established that K.F. Ryleev’s poetry contains no less than sixty-six phraseological units applied about hundred times; in this respect, his poetic language looks statistically “ordinary”, not distinguishing on the “phraseological” scale between his contemporaries. Among the phraseological units identified in the poet’s works, there are structure variants, author’s variations and transformations of established collocations. In terms of etymology, Russian-specific set phrases prevail among them; biblical expressions and Slavisms are present in a lesser degree; original west-European phraseological units do not practically appear. In terms of stylistics, the majority of phraseological units used by the poet are popular-colloquial; he uses bookish-high set phrases in a lesser degree. Generally, the phraseological units used by K.F. Ryleev did not get old by now. The aesthetic functions of phraseological units in his poetry are rather traditional: the amplification of artistic expression, the expression of evaluation by a lyrical character, a narrator, the character’s speech characteristics, and single-punning wordplay.