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The subject of the article is the vocabulary and phraseological units associated with the seme “paperwork”, extracted from the explanatory and phraseological dictionaries of the Russian language, containing the language norm of different historical periods. Using the continuous sampling method, lexemes and phraseological units (hereinafter referred to as phraseological units), primarily obsolete ones (archaisms), with the seme “documentation” were selected from dictionaries. The purpose of the article is to use the material of establish their etymology, and to explicate the social assessment contained in the words and phraseological units of the Russian language. As a result of the lexico-semantic and phraseological-semantic analysis of words and phraseological units, respectively, it was concluded that from an etymological point of view, most of the words are words of the Latin origin, when they are terms of paperwork. As for phraseological units, they are based on the metaphor of similarity in the type of activity performed by a person. It has been established that the phraseological and semantic field “paperwork” consists of phraseological units: serving as the name of a document or its type; naming a person by occupation, position, profession; denoting the place where work with business papers is carried out. It is concluded that most of the lexico-semantic field and the phraseological-semantic field is made up of outdated vocabulary and phraseology, indicating a dis-missive or jokingly ironic attitude on the part of society towards a person who is associated with the design and writing of business papers.
lexeme, lexico-semantic field, phraseological unit, phraseological-semantic field, paperwork, obsolete vocabulary and phraseology, dictionaries
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