Quick search
Go!

BEYOND AND ACROSS SCIENCES, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF PLANT- RELATED PROVERBS


MORÄ‚RAĹžU NADIA NICOLETA 1, PRISECARU MARIA 2
1. “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, 8 Spiru Haret, Bacau, Romania,
e-mail: n.morarasu@yahoo.com
2. University „Vasile Alecsandri” Bacau, Faculty of Biology, Marasesti Street, no. 157, Bacau, Romania,
e-mail: prisecaru_maria@yahoo.com;

Issue:

SCSB, Number 1, Volume XXIII

Section:

Volume 23, No. 1 - Vegetal Biology

Abstract:

In this paper, we provide a survey of some plant-related proverbs that focuses on the reflection of mental patterns based on which proverbs are created in English and Romanian. The analysis of a selection of proverbs is made from a comparative perspective, by signalling the common aspects of the two languages and rendering their specific characteristics. To this purpose, we have used as a model Savin’s Romanian Phraseological Dictionary, in which the main criterion of organisation of the lexicographical items is the image created by Romanian food expressions.

Keywords:

proverbs, cultural association, plants.

Code [ID]:

SCSB201401V23S01A0011 [0004121]

DOI:

Full paper:

Download pdf


Copyright (c) 1995-2007 University of Bacău