Gestures and Somatic Collocations with the Component                   HAND/ MKONO in Russian and Swahili Languages

L A Semenkova; Семенкова Людмила Алексеевна

Gestures and Somatic Collocations with the Component HAND/ MKONO in Russian and Swahili Languages

Authors: Semenkova LA¹
Affiliations:
1. Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Issue: No 2 (2015)
Pages: 118-124
Section: Articles
URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7519

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The article is devoted to the description of a number of somatic collocations and gestures with the component hand=mkono in Russian and Swahili languages in comparative aspect, and at the same time some Swahili «hand» gestures and their meanings are presented.

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somatic collocations, reinterpretation of gesture semantics, interaction between verbal and non-verbal elements, phraseological units formed on the base of gestures

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L A Semenkova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Email: ef.law9@gtmail.com
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