Realisation of Phraseological Modifications by Uupdating the Existing Contexts

The study paper examines phraseological activity of writers, the phraseological variations and modifications in particular. Phraseological variations and modifications are deliberate, creative, innovative forms of the original phraseological units` structure and meaning that produce different semantic, stylistic and pragmatic effect in the literary discourse. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the analysis of the phraseological activity of writers and to identify the procedures, transformations and changes that take part in the process of formal modification which result in the extension of the phraseological system of the language.