Человек и бог: формы взаимодействия в образах фразеологизмов
Man and God: Forms of Interaction in Phraseological Images

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the figurative component of the concept “God” on the material of phraseological units of Russian and other Slavic languages with the involvement of Hungarian phraseological parallels. Phraseological units whose images reflect the interaction of God and man are selected for analysis. The purpose of the paper is to show how in the associative mechanisms of idiom formation and in the situations reflected by the prototypes of idioms and proverbs, general Christian ideas about the world order and nationally specific interpretations of the interaction of man and God are realized. Idioms dating back to the texts of the Bible and representing scenes of Christ’s earthly life, his contacts with followers and persecutors are analyzed. In folk phraseological units which have also become the object of comparative analysis, the situations of interaction between God and the ordinary person are metaphorically reinterpreted. Clichéd appeals of a person to God as another type of interaction between man and God contain requests for family well-being, health, and luck.

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