Phraseology of the French Language

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Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge of phraseology as a linguistic discipline.
- Acquisition of knowledge about phraseology as a linguistic discipline and its position among other linguistic disciplines, its object of study and its historical development.
- Acquire knowledge of the most important representatives of French phraseology.
Competence:
- Acquisition of the ability to distinguish between several scientific approaches to the status of phraseology and the taxonomy of the units that make up the subject of study. Orientation in the theoretical approaches of several contemporary Spanish phraseologists.
- Acquisition of the competence to distinguish the basic types of phraseological units in the French language.
- Acquiring an overview of the syntactic-semantic functioning of the basic types of phraseological units in the French language.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to identify phraseological units in texts.
- Acquire the ability to identify and characterise specific phraseological units in the light of the theoretical knowledge acquired (type, structure and meaning of the phraseological unit).
- Acquire the ability to distinguish phraseological units according to linguistic styles and to be able to apply this knowledge to one's own texts

Indicative content

- Phraseology: origin and development of the discipline. Phraseology and borderline linguistic disciplines
- Limits of the scope of phraseology, subject of study, basic unit
- The most important trends in phraseological research: French and European phraseology
- Specific semantic structures of the phrase (somatic, with the verb "to have", with an ironic meaning, with proper names, with numerals, etc.)
- Semantic and formal side of paremias (proverbs, sayings, lores, biblical idioms, etc.)
- Phrases in the text (petrified idioms, variants of idioms (lexical, morphological, syntactic)

Support literature

Required:
1. CHOLLET, Isabelle – ROBERT, Jean-M.: Les expressions idiomatiques. Paris: CLE
International. 2008. 224 p.
2. GONZÁLES REY, Isabelle: La Nouvelle Phraséologie du français. Toulouse: Presses
Universitaires du Midi. 2021. 280p.
Optionel
1. Cahiers de lexicologie. – Variation(s) et phraséologie. 2020/1, n°116
2. Kauffer Maurice - Keromnes Yvon: Verbum – Phraséologie et pragmatique.n°1, tome XL. 2018. 134 p.
3. MEJRI, Salah – MENESES-LERIN, Luis. – BUFFARD-MORET, Brigitte.: La phraséologie
française en questions. Paris: Hermann. 2020. 464p.
4. SFAR, Inès – BUVET, Pierre.- A. (éds.): La phraséologie entre fixité et congruence. Hommage
à Salah Mejri. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia. 2018.

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 30 %
Final evaluation: 70 %

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
23 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
55 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

French

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 12.05.2024