Representation of the phraseological unit “sore spot” in a modern newspaper text

INTRODUCTION . Modern newspaper text is an area of active use of phraseological units. The purpose of the study is to analyze the use of the phraseological unit “sore spot” in modern newspaper text. MATERIALS AND METHODS . The material of this work is newspaper texts presented in the National Corpus of the Russian Language newspaper subcorpus. The following methods were used: continuous sampling method, contextual analysis, descriptive, quantitative analysis. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION . It was revealed that the phraseological unit “sore spot” is used with high frequency in the newspapers “Komsomol’skaya pravda”, “Nezavisimaya gazeta”, “Trud”, “Izvestiya”, intended for the mass reader. It was determined that the use of the phraseological unit “sore spot” in newspaper texts depends on the subject of the texts. The phraseological unit is mainly used by journalists in the sections covering problems of politics, public life, business, economics, art and culture, sports. CONCLUSION . In modern newspaper text, the phraseological unit “sore spot” is a vivid means of expressiveness, expressiveness of the statement, used by journalists to increase attention to the problem being analyzed.