The Linguistic Image of Man in the Hungarian and Romanian Languages
The Linguistic Image of Man in the Hungarian and Romanian Languages
Author(s): Sára MagyariSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: language; culture; linguistic image; Hungarian; Romanian
Summary/Abstract: By analysing the key words we reconstruct the conceptions created by the two speech communities in their languages in order to understand their interpretation of reality. The analysis of the collocations and expressions identifies common basic principles reflecting the relationship between language and thought. The analysis is based on the theory of linguistic relativity and uses methods recommended by Banczerovski Janusz, Lera Boroditsky and Anna Wierzbicka in order to investigate connections between language and culture, language an thought. By adapting the recommended evaluation methods an evaluations model was created, able to reconstruct the Hungarian and Romanian linguistic image of man.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
- Issue Year: 5/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 137-148
- Page Count: 12