Spatial Opposition

This article deals with spatial opposition "own/someone else’s" in English texts, differences and similarities of these concepts. The goal of the research is achieved by linguistic-cultural analysis of the proverbs. The analysis is conducted on the basis of the cumulated cultural and histo...

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Main Authors: Ella V. Nesterik, Marina V. Vagner
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Academic Publishing House Researcher 2013-01-01
Series:Evropejskij Issledovatelʹ
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Online Access:http://www.erjournal.ru/pdf.html?n=1367337845.pdf
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Summary:This article deals with spatial opposition "own/someone else’s" in English texts, differences and similarities of these concepts. The goal of the research is achieved by linguistic-cultural analysis of the proverbs. The analysis is conducted on the basis of the cumulated cultural and historic data. It enables to determine the established value-meaningful concept of a man by ethnos in the combination of certain properties, qualities, activities, his/her attitude to the world, his/her understanding of the major categories of the worldview
ISSN:2219-8229
2224-0136