Abstract:Statement of the problem. This paper aims to identify the features of use and functioning of famous film quotes from Hollywood movies in the context of everyday communication, Internet communication, media discourse, TV discourse, blogs. Results. The study shows possible meanings that film quotes acquire in various contexts, identifies their functions based on their contextual semantics, and describes transformations that film quotes undergo. The main methods of research are corpus analysis, contextual analysi… Show more
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