Українська релігійна лексика в газетних номінаціях-словосполуках

The article identifi es peculiarities of the stylistic transposition of religious lexemes that are the members of metaphorical phrase nominations in modern Ukrainian mass media. Renewal of nominative phrase metaphors by replacing frequent lexemes with religious lexemes reinforces the semantics of these semantic-syntactic associations giving them expressiveness. Religious lexemes that update phrase nominations, already known and the new ones, undergo semantic shifts. Semantic transformations of religious lexemes in contextual nominations are likely to demonstrate ironic connotations and combinations of the incongruous in terms of style and stylistics. Overcoming traditional syntagmatics and recurrent actualizations of new meanings in diff erent contexts “strengthen” the new semantics transforming particular meanings into separate ones