Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Since the phraseology of any language is anthropocentric, it reflects in a metaphorical way various phenomena of human life, including interpersonal relationships based on the disproportionate distribution of financial and material resources that characterizes all the stages of the development of human society. Therefore, the phraseo-semantic macrofields “poverty, poor man” and “wealth, wealthy man” are very broad in all languages. In this paper, the authors deal with the second group, i.e. phrases referring to different aspects of wealth, comparing the presence of units from the studied semantic spectrum in Slovak and Slovene. They divide them into several groups according to their origin, components and meaning. On the basis of the comparative analysis, they conclude that the phrases are structurally and semantically very diverse, expressing similar or identical thought content in both languages by different linguistic means. Some of the phrasemes are older examples which are nowadays used minimally or not at all. Nevertheless, they are an important part of the cultural heritage of both linguistic communities.
Source: Jezik in slovstvo
Authors: Mária Dobríková, Svetlana Kmecová
Institution: Comenius University Bratislava
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: No poverty
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4386844477