EXPRESIA IMAGINARĂ A FĂGĂDUI MAREA CU SAREA. UNIVERSALITATE ŞI SPECIFICITATE CULTURALĂ
The Imaginary Expression a făgădui marea cu sarea. Universality and Cultural Specificity

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to describe the mechanisms of expressivity of the Romanian imaginary expression a făgădui marea cu sarea (literally, ‘to promise the sea with the salt’) – “to promise something impossible to achieve”. We use the structure of imaginary expression in the sense proposed by Stelian Dumistrăcel (1980) who distinguishes between expressions copies of reality that originally had an objective function of communication, which subsequently achieved, through metaphorization, an expressive value, and imaginative expressions (terms of unreal comparisons), which were born as metaphors.We try to reveal the fact that phrasemes are not only units of a sign system, language, but also carriers of cultures, pointing out the necessity for modern phraseological research to turn to cultural phenomena. To explore this connection, one has to consider both the literal and the figurative readings of phrasemes, as well as the different levels of describing phrasemes, since there are various ways in which cultural aspects may become manifest

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