An Intercultural Approach to Language: Idiomatic Expressions in French and Romanian Cover Image

O abordare interculturală a limbajului. Idiomatisme în limbile franceză și română
An Intercultural Approach to Language: Idiomatic Expressions in French and Romanian

Author(s): Cristian Pașcalău
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: culture; language; creativity; relativity; idiomatic expressions; meaning;

Summary/Abstract: Exploring the cultural environment of language, we propose a contrastive analysis of French and Romanian in terms of idiomatic expressions as cores of linguistic creativity and world conceptualization within the two cultures. The first section, mainly theoretical, deals with the issue of language as a creative activity from which meanings emerge, and of particular languages as techniques for establishing a linguistic and cultural tradition within the communities of speakers. The second section customizes this theoretical grounds, aiming at capitalizing on a corpus of idiomatic expressions specific to French and Romanian.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2021
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 135-149
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian