Somatic Phraseology in Russian and Uzbek: A Contrastive and Linguocultural Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.1997/78ar6049Keywords:
comparative linguistics, cultural connotation, equivalence, idiom, interference, phraseological unit, somatism, translationAbstract
The article offers a contrastive description of somatic phraseology in Russian and Uzbek. Idioms built on the components head, heart, hand, eye and tongue are classified according to four degrees of interlingual correspondence: full equivalence, partial equivalence with a shift of image, functional equivalence with a different somatic base, and zero equivalence. The analysis shows that the two languages differ less in the inventory of body parts they exploit than in the way these parts are distributed across semantic fields. Russian assigns emotional and moral evaluation predominantly to dusha and serdtse, whereas Uzbek concentrates the same field around ko‘ngil and yurak, and uses qo‘l and ko‘z far more widely for social and ethical assessment. Consequences for the teaching of Russian to Uzbek-speaking students and for translation practice are formulated.
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