Abstract
Language is a social phenomenon that is constantly changing, developing and replenishing. All the changes and innovations taking place in society are brought to life through language. In connection with the transition into circulation and the formation of new language applications, the press service performs a special function. The acquisition of sovereignty and independence by our country, the acquisition of the status of the state language led to a new development of the Kazakh press. In order for the press to find innovations in the development of speech, we must, of course, systematically study its language. Taking into account the above, the article considers the issues of formation and development of the Kazakh literary language, the language of the press from the point of view of a new stage since the acquisition of sovereignty by our country, where, in particular, the previously expressed theoretical considerations and collected materials on the use of phraseology in the media are analyzed. Phraseological units were collected from the newspapers «Zhas Alash» and «Ontustik Kazakhstan», the features of their use and occasional forms were determined. As a source for our article, the numbers of these newspapers published since 2010 are taken. Scientific conclusions on the use of phraseological units in the modern press were presented. The article is written on the basis of a research project on grant funding «Written heritage and text studies: orthograms, word formation and linguopoetics of a literary text in journalism of the early twentieth century».