FRUGALITY and COVETOUSNESS in Proverbs (based on Russian, Latvian, German, English and Tadjik)
- Authors: Bredis M.A1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Issue: No 1 (2016)
- Pages: 131-138
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7215
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Abstract
The research subject hereof is the objectivisation in the language of the covetousness and frugality ideas by reference to proverbs in Russian, Latvian, German, English and Tadjik. These proverbs show a lot more similarities than differences. This may be attributed to logical-semantic affinity of proverbs as signs of situations and relations between things as well as the genetic relationship of the specified languages and peoples’ contacts.
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Mikhail A Bredis
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Email: briedis@yandex.ru