Three-dimensional depiction of body parts in Polish and French idiomatic expressions  Cover Image

Les images de la tridimensionnalité du corps humain vues à travers les expressions figées françaises et polonaises
Three-dimensional depiction of body parts in Polish and French idiomatic expressions

Author(s): Witold Ucherek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: comparative phraseology; Polish and French idiomatic expressions; somatism; topographic sem

Summary/Abstract: In this article Witold Ucherek compared Polish and French idiomatic expressions including body parts, the meaning of which revealed topographic sems embodied in the structure of somatisms. The list of mentioned expressions was created on the basis of monolingual and bilingual phraseological dictionaries. The conducted analysis revealed strong similarities between Polish and French, as far as the way of expressing the communicational content of the analyzed idiomatic expressions was concerned.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 145-152
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French