Câteva observații despre motivația culturală a construcțiilor fixe care conțin termenul câine în limbile romanice

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  • Monica-Geanina Coca Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava image/svg+xml Author

Keywords:

dog, cultural motivation, phraseology, areas of meaning, collective mind

Abstract

This study started from the observation that the analysis of language facts from a functional perspective can be adequately complemented by the analysis of semantic motivation, as advanced and documented by Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij and Elisabeth Piirainen (2018) (s. the ample use of this approach as a working method in prestigious lexicographic works, such as The Atlas of the Languages of Europe). The object of investigation is the set phrases featuring the lexeme dog, an important figure of the linguistic and cultural mind in Romance languages such as Romanian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, by evaluating the linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts that marked the meanings of these structures.

The results highlight, on the one hand, figurative phraseological patterns that cover in the nomination process different fields of knowledge with a universal character, which refer to fundamental aspects of life, and on the other, particularities specific to each investigated collective mind.

Author Biography

  • Monica-Geanina Coca, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

    Monica-Geanina COCA is since 2022 Associate Professor at „Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, the Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences. She is the author of several books: Termeni creștini în frazeologia românească (2007), Dicţionar frazeologic de termeni reprezentativi (2014), Neologismul în frazeologia românească (2015), Evoluţia limbii române de la origini până în secolul al XV-lea (2015), Gramatică practică a limbii române. Teorie și exerciții (2020). She also coordinated several volumes as an editor (Limbă, mentalitate, identitate în spațiul european – 2015, Studii de filologie romanică – 2020) and contributed to two further important books (Marian Petcu, Istoria jurnalismului din România în date – 2012, Rodica Nagy, Dicționar de analiza discursului – 2015). Monica Geanina Coca participated in many national and international conferences and symposia with papers on phraseology, language history and dialectology, sociology of communication, persuasive strategies, PR, cultural and linguistic communication within Europe.

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Published

2024-05-31

Issue

No. 21 (2024): Polycentric Perspectives on Philology

Section

Contrastive linguistics

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