Abstract:
The aim of the course work is to reveal the types of idioms employed in modern Anglophone media discourse as well as their functional specificity.
In accordance with the paper, the following tasks are set:
– to survey political idioms in media discourse
– to specify features of political idioms in modern Anglophone media discourse
– to determine the best way to analyse an idiom
– to analyse idioms as autonomous language units
– to elicit the main purpose of political idioms in modern Anglophone media discourse.
