FRUGALITY and COVETOUSNESS in Proverbs (based on Russian, Latvian, German, English and Tadjik)
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 pr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2016-12-01
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Series: | RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics |
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Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7215 |