Collocability of the adjectives “театральный” (theatrical), “театрализованный” (theatricalized): structural and semantic features (based on the material of the Russian National Corpus)

The article analyzes the collocability features of the adjectives with the root -театр- (-theater-) (“театральный” (theatrical), “театрализованный” (theatricalized)) in modern Russian. The semantic features of phrases formed with these words are considered, the most frequent phrases are identified using the material of the Russian National Corpus. The study aims to characterize the models and principles of implementing the collocability of the units “театральный”, “театрализованный” in the Russian language. The study is novel in that it is the first one to consider the collocability features of these lexemes belonging to the lexical-semantic field “Theater”, which reflects the characteristics of Russian speakers’ worldview, associative and expressive semantic details contained in this worldview. As a result of the study, it was found that phrases with the adjective “театральный” are more common than phrases with the adjective “театрализованный”. Their semantic scope is different: phrases with the adjective “театральный” denote mainly theatrical phenomena, phrases with the adjective “театрализованный” are used to denote festive and solemn events. Phrases with the adjective “театральный” denote phenomena in both the literal and figurative sense.