A CONTRAST ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERSON-DESCRIBING PROVERBS IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE
https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2018-1-13-113-120
Abstract
Proverbs represent the essence of a language. They are filled with cultural and linguistic characteristics. Proverbs describing a person are one of the most often used categories that play an important role in our daily life. There are many proverbs of this type in Russian and Chinese. Their similarity in semantics and rhetoric demonstrates the human’s commonness in cognition and thinking, while their differences in formal structure, metaphor image and source of precedent reveal the individuality of Russian and Chinese and their respective cultures.
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YANG Lan
Beijing Foreign Studies University
China
No.2 North Xisanhuan Road, Beijing, 100089
China
No.2 North Xisanhuan Road, Beijing, 100089
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Lan Ya. A CONTRAST ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERSON-DESCRIBING PROVERBS IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2018;1(13):113-120. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2018-1-13-113-120
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