PHRASEOLOGIES OF THE GERMAN YOUTH SLANG: THEIR MORPHOLOGICALLY STRUCTURAL AND THEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS

The study is devoted to a topical issue - the study of morphological and structural specifics of the functioning of phraseological units of German-language youth slang. The relevance of the research topic is due to the increased interest of the Ukrainian community in socially determined types of speech, ways and means of enriching their lexical composition. The study consisted of a continuous sample of five dictionaries of the youth language of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The task of this investigation is to study the morphological and structural characteristics of phraseological units of German-language youth slang, their thematic orientation. Young people use phraseology to attract attention, be witty, give imagery to the image, expressiveness of language, express emotions, etc. It is known that according to the degree of idiomaticity in German linguistics there are idiomatic (idioms), partially idiomatic and non-idiomatic phraseology. However, there is no single, comprehensive classification of phraseology, and the problem of classification of phraseological units has always been and is in the center of attention of phraseologists. Linguistics uses various schemes of division of phraseological units, depending on which classification criteria underlie their classification: semantic, syntactic or pragmatic. The study found that the most common group of phraseology by morphological and syntactic classification are verb phraseology. Analysis of the factual material shows that the most numerous class of phraseological units were models with the structure of the phrase "noun + verb", as well as substantive phraseological units. Almost all the phraseological units that have been the subject of our scientific research consisted of only two components, which speaks of the language economy of young people. Thematically, the phraseological units used by young people are aimed mainly at the negative characteristics of members of the youth community and their actions, but among the phraseological units can be identified and those that do not contain a negative assessment in their semantics.