The Representation of the Concept 'Home/ Fatherland' (Based on Russian and Armenian Proverbs)

Autor: Nina Karapetovna Gasparian
Jazyk: English<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Russian Language Studies, Vol 16, Iss 2, Pp 207-223 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2618-8163
2618-8171
2313-2264
DOI: 10.22363/2313-2264-2018-16-2-207-223
Popis: Linguistic and cultural analysis of the basic concepts of human external and internal world can reveal national character, national ideas, various cultural ideals reflected in these concepts. The concept “Home/Fatherland” is one of the key concepts in the worldview of Russians and Armenians. The author analyses the concept “Home/Fatherland” as a means of representing reality in national consciousness comparing two linguistic pictures of the world. We know that a concept contains important cultural information, concealing its direct meaning in a linguistic unit. The article presents the results of comparative linguistic and cultural analysis of the concept “Home/Fatherland” on the material of the two languages paremiology. The proverbs and sayings gave the author the opportunity to identify the similarities and differences in Russian and Armenian perception of the Home/Fatherland and to determine national and cultural specificity of the concept “Home/Fatherland”.
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