About Some Phraseological Units with a Main Component “Bread” in Comparative Aspect in Bulgarian, Russian and Greek Cover Image

За някои фразеологични единици с ядрен компонет „хляб“ в съпоставителен аспект в български, руски и гръцки език
About Some Phraseological Units with a Main Component “Bread” in Comparative Aspect in Bulgarian, Russian and Greek

Author(s): Emilia Avginova-Nikolova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Phraseology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: phraseological unit; bread; Bulgarian; Russian; Greek

Summary/Abstract: The work is an attempt to describe the current empirical evidence of the bread concept, the perception of the term and the different aspects of it in the three languages, subjects of the current analysis – Bulgarian, Russian and Greek language. All outlined phraseological units in the research are united in the semantic field of the bread concept, by defining them in semantic models. In more general term according to the present elaboration the unifying core model is the Bread – power, the meaning of life, playing the most essential role for subsistence needs, means of existence, observing the fact in more concrete aspect that in the three languages the number of the phraseological units in each semantic model is different. We attempted to provide our most accurate /as far as possible/ interpretation of the foreign language phraseological units.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 164-173
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English, Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Modern (1453-)