Open AccessSET EXPRESSIONS WITH CARDINAL NUMERALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF NEWS MEDIA
Author(s) -
Natalia Mikheeva
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
filologičeskie nauki v mgimo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3717
pISSN - 2410-2423
DOI - 10.24833/2410-2423-2019-4-20-71-81
Subject(s) - numeral system , expression (computer science) , set (abstract data type) , newspaper , mathematics , cardinal number (linguistics) , linguistics , cardinality (data modeling) , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , arithmetic , advertising , philosophy , programming language , database , business
The article is focused on set expressions with cardinal numerals in Spanish newspaper language. These fixed expressions are part of linguistic expressive means, which realize one of mass media functions. The purpose of the article is to analyze set expressions with cardinal numerals, classify them according to some criteria and determine newspaper spheres in which they are most frequently used. Fixed expressions with cardinal numerals are more numerous in number than those with ordinal ones, or multiple, partible or fractional numbers, and include expressions with numbers from zero to eight and numbers with a hundred, a thousand, and a million. For the purposes of the research fixed expressions with cardinal numerals are divided into two groups: the invariable expressions with a fixed cardinal numeral, and the variable expressions with a changeable cardinal numeral. In the article there are provided classifications of set expressions with cardinal numerals based on grammatical and semantic criteria, and their components. There is analyzed the use of fixed expressions in the language of newspapers. Set expressions with cardinal numerals form part of the phraseological thesaurus of the Spanish language and the language of news media in particular.