Semantics of Idioms Containing Names of Body Parts in English, Slovak, and Hungarian (A Comparative Study)
The main objective of the paper is to study idioms containing names of body parts in the English, Slovak, and Hungarian languages The traits of the selected idioms are investigated in terms of semantics The research sample, which includes fifty idioms with the body part keyword, is inspected wit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Scientia Publishing House
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://acta.sapientia.ro/content/docs/12-934356.pdf |
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| Summary: | The main objective of the paper is to study idioms containing
names of body parts in the English, Slovak, and Hungarian languages The
traits of the selected idioms are investigated in terms of semantics The
research sample, which includes fifty idioms with the body part keyword,
is inspected with the help of both quantitative and qualitative methods To
give the research a theoretical basis, it is firstly explored how idioms are
understood within these typologically diverse languages in the matter of
their typical features, and classifications from the viewpoint of semantics.
As a result, the investigated idioms were divided into eight groups in
accordance with the discovered semantic similarities and differences across
the studied languages Furthermore, the research outputs demonstrate
that there appear six groups of idioms considering the correspondence of
keywords of the studied idioms in English, Slovak, and Hungarian The
principal benefit of the study is the examination of the given lexical units in
a trilingual environment of typologically different languages. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-5151 2068-2956 |