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Body Idioms in Russian and Serbian Languages
Body Idioms in Russian and Serbian Languages

Author(s): Maţa ŢARAN ANDREICI
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Editura Politehnica
Keywords: body language; body idioms; human psyche; human physiology;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the current paper is to display a comparative analysis of the body idioms belonging to two related languages, Russian and Serbian that metaphorically designate human physical and psychical features. A part of the Russian and Serbian idioms contain in their structure a word related to body that function as a symbol. The research of the phraseological material has revealed that phrasemes that have as a head-word a word related to body is one of the most numerous type of phraseological units in both the two Slavic languages.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 15-22
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English