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On the Instantial Use of Phraseological Units

Anita Naciscione’s new book Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse is noted for the breadth and variety of its contents and presents a significant event not only in the development of phraseology, but also in linguistic theory in general. The book is devoted to the problem of instantial use of phraseological units (PUs) in discourse, which is among the prime directions of research both in phraseology and teaching English as a foreign langauge (TEFL) linguo-didactics. The book is evidently the result of the author’s long-standing research and it demonstrates the wide scope of Anita Naciscione’s experience in the field. The base that the edition is built upon is quite extensive. It is sufficient to allude to some earlier transactions of Naciscione. Those are, first of all, her candidate’s dissertation ‘Instantial Stylistic Use of PUs (on the Material of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works)’ in 1976 and the prototypical issue of the new publication Phraseological Units in Discourse. In both books the author tackles the questions of instantial stylistic use of PUs in discourse, which gets the most exhaustive elucidation within the latter. The book consists of two parts. In the first Naciscione scrutinises the functioning of PUs in discourse. The second part is devoted to questions concerning the discourse-oriented approach to the teaching of phraseology and to the stylistic use of PUs in context. Within the second part considerable attention is paid to the problems of phraseological lexicography and translation of instantially transformed PUs. The book concludes with a glossary of basic terms and some appendices illustrating instantial use of PUs in fiction and advertising. The logical basis of the book consists of the interpretation of instantially transformed PUs as a normal linguistic phenomenon. Naciscione distinguishes between three fundamental forms of a PU’s existence: base form, core use and instantial stylistic use. The base form of a PU is treated by the author as a PU being a virtual element of the language system irrespective of the form of its speech actualisation. Such a form is established by means of dictionaries. The base form is outside discourse and is stored in the long-term memory of the language user as a language unit which can be reproduced and which is accessed when a discourse situation calls for it. The base form is a cohesive entity which secures the existence, development and sustainability of the PU in discourse. The base form presents thus an archetypical concept.