SEMANTIC AND APPLICATIVE VALUES OF SOME PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN ITALIAN IN PIRANDELLO’S COMEDY 'LA GIARA' / SEMANTIČKE I APLIKATIVNE VRIJEDNOSTI NEKIH FRAZEOLOŠKIH KONSTRUKCIJA U ITALIJANSKOM JEZIKU NA PRIMJERIMA IZ PIRANDELLOVE KOMEDIJE 'LA GIARA'

Abstract

The use of phraseological units is rather frequent in all types of expression.  These are multi-word lexical units with an independent meaning and they are used to convey a more appealing, eloquent and effective message. It is particularly interesting to observe the applicative value of phraseological units in communicative situations where their metaphorical meaning can awaken various emotions in the addressee (surprise, astonishment, joy, anger, approval etc.). This exactly is the reason why for our corpus analysis, we chose comedy, a literary piece rich in dialogues, which we recognized as abounding in diverse and interesting formal units used to portray certain human characteristics. Therefore, our corpus study analyzes the language of the comedy La giara written by a famous Italian writer, Luigi Pirandello, in the early twentieth century. One of the many linguistic structures that Pirandello uses in this work, the phraseological unit is of special importance, so we focus on the following: the analysis and the description of its component parts, defining the basic function of its dominant constituent, defining the semantic value of the phraseological unit itself, and identifying image metaphors it contains. It is important to note that the semantic value of such a structure cannot be described solely on the basis of the semantic value of its component parts, but it is necessary to observe the relationship between these elements and the structure as a whole. After the analysis of each phraseological unit, we will endeavor to describe structures belonging to the Bosnian language system that could be considered their equivalents. In this way, we will make observations about their similarities and differences in two different language systems.