The carnival conceptualisation of world and the man in the axiological aspect (on the basis o f selected Russian and Polish phrase units) Cover Image

Карнавальная концепция мира и человека в аксиологическом аспекте (на материале избранных pусских и польских фразеологических единиц)
The carnival conceptualisation of world and the man in the axiological aspect (on the basis o f selected Russian and Polish phrase units)

Author(s): Andrzej Sitarski
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Russian language;Polish language;phrase unit;

Summary/Abstract: The author draws attention in the text to the fixed phrases functioning in the Polish and Russian languages, whose lexical components, on joining to form the phrase, are in contradiction to the norms of the so called semantic valence. The phrases are an echo of the rules of the carnival concept of the ≪world upside-down≫, in which all existnig norms and rules are transgressed. The analysed phrase corpus permits a conclusion that it is in its entirety anthropocentric of character and refers to various aspects of evaluating of man. The examined phrases are not only exaples of peculiar innovations in phrase units, but also result of deliberate act of creation, based on rules of carnivalisation of language.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: XIV
  • Page Range: 497-503
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian