The article deals with phraseology in the newspaper of the SLovene emigrant community in Argentina from two aspects, which are, at first sight, not directly connected with each other. The first part treats phraseological units as expressive linguistic means that are optimal for fulfilling the appelative function of newspaper texts. The quantitative analysis of phraseology in the emigrant newspaper Svobodna Slovenija (Free Slovenia) in interpreted by means of a comparison with data of the same kind obtained from newspapers published in Slovenia. The second part of the article shows the type of phraseology in the newspaper of the Slovene emigrants, and on the basis of the fact that the number of phraseological units in Svobodna Slovenija decreases year it analyses the phraseological competence of the writers of the texts analysed.
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