Images of Domestic and Wild Animals in Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Paremiaes Cover Image

Образы домашних и диких животных в польских, русских и украинских паремиях
Images of Domestic and Wild Animals in Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Paremiaes

Author(s): Nadiia Melnyk
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Lexis, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Russian Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: paremiology; phraseology; semantics; cultural linguistics; animal studies

Summary/Abstract: Animalisms as the animalistic components of paremiaes play an important role in the semantic codes in Paremiology. The comparative and contrastive analysis of animalisms in the structure of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian paremiaes with the use of a biocentric approach allows us to describe the general and specific features of behaviour and characters that exist in the most widespread paremic images of wild and domestic animals. The animalistic images are typical of: the Polish, Russian and Ukrainian culture. The process of describing each category of animal which takes place in the paremiologic units supports the reconstruction of fragments of a linguistic world‑image and allows us to observe a correlation between such concepts as Animal and Human Being.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 237-249
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian