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In this section we will disclose the main features of phraseological units from a cognitive perspective. A discourse-based view will allow us to examine them in a broader context, not just in single phrases or sentences. The phraseological units are some lexicalized bilexemic or polylexemic word groups in common use which have relative syntactic and semantic stability. They may have an emphatic or intensifying function in a text. The idioms make a dominant sub-type within this category. There are a number of synonymic terms of the expression “phraseological unit,” such as fixed word-groups, set expressions, set phrases, idioms, etc. The Russian linguists give preference to the term “phraseological unit,” whereas the western scholars usually use the term “idiom,” which is much broader in meaning, in fact. (Lavrova, 2012:109) The idioms are some lexicalized word groups in common use which have syntactic and semantic stability and may carry some connotations but whose meaning can not be derived from the meanings of their constituents. They are characterized by a specific choice and combination of the semantic components carried by their constituents, as in the following examples: a lame duck; to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth; to eat one’s words; before you can say Jack Robinson.
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