Iryna Y. Communicative functions of stable word-combinations of phraseological character in the periodical press of Ukrainian diaspora in the USA and Canada (1991-2000)

In the thesis the complex examination of the communicative potential of stable word-combinations of phraseological character is carried out in the USA and Canada diaspora press of the given period, the phraseology studies experience is generalized, the Ukrainian diasporal press appearance and development of immigrational processes in Ukraine are analyzed, the conditions of stable word-combinations of phraseological character functioning in the language of press in the foreign ethnical environment is underlined. The studies of the most spread lexical units combinational peculiarities in the structure of stable expressions of phraseological character is carried out, their synonymical, antonymical and omonimical peculiarities are analysed, the topical groups of stable word-combinations of phraseological character in the diasporal press language is defined, the diasporal press role in the preservation of ethnonational peculiarities and consolidation of the world Ukrainian community is cleared up.