O konotacjach wartościujących idiomów antroponimicznych w perspektywie kontrastywnej (na materiale angielsko-włoskim) Cover Image

On the evaluative connotations of anthroponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective (based on English and Italian)
O konotacjach wartościujących idiomów antroponimicznych w perspektywie kontrastywnej (na materiale angielsko-włoskim)

Author(s): Joanna Szerszunowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: idiom; anthroponym; evaluative connotation; equivalent

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a presentation of a part of research on the evaluative connotations of onymic idioms in a contrastive perspective. In the present paper the evaluative connotations of English and Italian evaluative anthroponymic idioms are discussed with a special focus on their cross--linguistic equivalence. The research material consists of two corpora of English and Italian units excerpted from mono- and bilingual lexicographic works. The mechanisms of evaluation exploited in English and Italian phraseological units are discussed. The typology of equivalents, covering various types, such as full equivalents, partial equivalents, equivalents with re-created anthroponyms, non-phraseological equivalents, and pseudo-equivalents, is presented and exemplified.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 293-314
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish