A word in the context of a cultural and historical universe: Some case studies from the US political discourse
The article examines cultural semantics of lexical units of the English language through the prism of Anna Wierzbicka’s views. The article focuses on the lexical units like whistle-blower, kangaroo ticket, log cabin president, Camelot presidency, redneck, etc., which along with the lexical meaning f...
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| Language: | English |
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/20166/16434 |