On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)
| Autor: | Kovshova M. |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 67-93 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2225-5346 2686-8989 |
| DOI: | 10.5922/2225-5346-2017-3-4 |
| Popis: | This article explores proverbs as signs that preserve, transfer, and develop meanings rooted in the ethnic culture. The author investigates the ways cultural semantics is expressed in proverbs featuring clothing items. Another focus is the ways to refer to garment elements. Clothing items are universal realia; they form concepts, mythologemes, symbols, gauges, stereotypes, etc. in the realm of ideas about the world. These ideas are interpreted within different fields of human spiritual life, for instance, in proverbs. Proverbs featuring clothing items are a major source for understanding tastes, preferences, lifestyles, customs, and worldview of a nation. Images of garments in proverbs are a particular form of expressing the key ideas of a culture. Moreover, such images serve as condensers of the established etiquette, ethical, social, and other judgements. A cultural and linguistic analysis reveals cultural and linguistic limitations on the variability of clothing items in proverbs. The author describes cultural constants captured in the names of clothing items used in proverbs. Such constants are defined as essential for understanding the Russian mentality. |
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