The aim of a corpus-based approach to the study of Chinese idioms in translational and non-translational texts is to testify the preliminary hypothesis regarding the remarkable use of typical four-character expressions, especially idioms and collocations in Chinese translational texts, which has been conceived and developed largely from my Ph.D. dissertation on a corpus-based study of four-char...

This article discusses humorous phraseological units, which make up a large part of the French fund, and level their study by phraseologists in field linguistics, as well structural semantic features expressions that can be studied from scientific practical point view. At same time, they analyze asymmetry lexical actualizers process expression real events, particularly forms funny proverbs phra...