Euphemisms and riddles about birth and death in Russian and English cultures: the principle of indirect nomination
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For the first time, a cognitive and cultural-semiotic study of coding of topics and death in euphemisms and riddles is carried out in the book. Theoretical and methodological foundations of the complex study of euphemisms and riddles as signs of language and culture, their systemic cognitive-cultural description are developed. On the wide material of euphemisms and riddles of the Russian -speaking and English -speaking cultures, methods of indirect nomination in euphemisms and riddles on the topics of birth and death are described. A framework analysis and cultural commenting of metaphorical and non -metaphorical units on the topics of birth and death are carried out. Through the cognitive (framework) analysis, the constituting signs of euphemisms and riddles on the topics of birth and death are determined, using the cultural commentary, the use of certain images in multilingual cultures is explained, and the interpretation of indirect nominations in the space of cultural knowledge is given. The main cognitive metaphors are described in Russian -speaking and English -speaking riddles and euphemisms on birth and death themes.
The book is intended for linguistic culturalists, linguists-cognitologists, phraseologists, paremiologists, philologists, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the interconnection of language and culture
The book is intended for linguistic culturalists, linguists-cognitologists, phraseologists, paremiologists, philologists, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the interconnection of language and culture
Author:
Author:Орлова О.С.
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9710-9211-7
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