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PROVERBS: TERMINOLOGY AND POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS


CROITORU ELENA
“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaƣi

Issue:

INTERSTUDIA, Number 6

Section:

LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Abstract:

The idea is shared that all fixed expressions, proverbs included, are specific to a certain social, psychologic and cultural background which endows them with certain expressive values. Fixed espressions, in general, and proverbs, in particular, are culturally-or sitautionally-bound. The great variety of proverbs existing in any language brings to the fore a very important aspect, namely that proverbs are coded culturally and lexically and they are a phenomenon of discourse, not simply of lexicon.

Keywords:

fixed expressions, phraseological units, proverbs, terminology.

Code [ID]:

INTERS201006V00S03A0003 [0003050]


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