On the Usage of Phraseological Components in A. Blok’s Article “The Intelligentsia and the Revolution”

Aim. To study the composition and functions of phraseological components in Alexander Blok’s essay “The Intelligentsia and the Revolution.” Methodology . Grab sampling was used to collect and analyze stable units of various types and origins, including the author’s transformed variants, as a linguistic material, in A. Blok’s text “The Intelligentsia and the Revolution”, which are understood as phraseological units in a broad sense of the term. The functioning of these units was studied by using structural-semantic and contextual-stylistic methods. In the process of analysis, the contextual semantics was described using lexicographic sources and interpreted. The study was conducted within the framework of the anthropocentric paradigm which focuses on the author’s linguistic personality. Results . The significance of phraseological components has been established – they reveal the topic of the article, explain both the author’s attitude towards the collapse of the bourgeois world and his critics towards the intelligentsia during the revolutionary upheaval, and demonstrate Blok’s intention to embrace the revolution. It has been concluded that the idiostyle of “music” in Blok’s text is associated with the use of phraseological components, the content of which indicates the importance of folk evaluation tools, such as stable units, used by the author. Research implications . This research confirms the importance of studying the means which reflect the features of idiostyle, and the importance of phraseology for explicating the author’s position. The results can be applied to the study of the language and style of Alexander Blok as a publicist, to the creation university courses on stylistics and lexicology, and can be used as illustrative material for deepening understanding of the linguistic personality phenomenon.