Semantics of phraseological units featuring direct kinship terms in modern media texts
... individual variations in how native speakers interpret such expressions. A comparison of dictionary definitions and usage contexts made it possible to identify four types of connections between the meaning of a family relationship term and the idiomatic meaning of a phraseological unit: the preservation of the semantics of consanguinity in the meaning of the phraseological unit; the dependence of phraseological semantics on the figurative meaning of the kinship component; the augmentation of the meaning of the fixed ...
