Comparative Analysis of Modern Greek and Bulgarian’s Surprise-expressing Idioms from Cognitive Perspective
Comparative Analysis of Modern Greek and Bulgarian’s Surprise-expressing Idioms from Cognitive Perspective
Author(s): Sotiria PapadopulouSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: φρασεολογική μονάδα; συναίσθημα; έκπληξη; conceptual metaphor; Modern Greek; Bulgarian
Summary/Abstract: The present paper discusses the conceptualization of surprise as one of the six primary emotions identified by Ekman, Friesen & Ellsworth (1982: 45) in Modern Greek and Bulgarian phraseology. The purpose of this paper is to study the conceptualization of surprise as illustrated through idiomatic expressions (full phraseme/idiom). By means of comparison, similar and different metaphoric idioms for conceptualizing surprise are first detected. We present the semantic patterning of the idioms and this patterning, in turn, reveals how Greek and Bulgarian people talk about and structure the abstract conceptual domains (Gibbs & Wilson, 2002: 527).
Journal: Филологически форум
- Issue Year: 4/2018
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 42-53
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
