Animal Metaphors and Idioms in the Corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian Parallel Texts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55630/dipp.2014.4.19Keywords:
animal metaphors, text corpus, corpus linguistics, parallel texts, Bulgarian language, Ukrainian language, cultural heritageAbstract
In this study we examine the metaphoric mentions of three wild animals considered to be most important in the Slavic popular tradition, namely the wolf, the bear and the hare, in a Bulgarian–Ukrainian parallel corpus. Our goal is to see what meanings are found most often, how well images from alien world views are accepted by the Bulgarian and the Ukrainian linguistic consciousness, and how translators replace images which are likely not to be interpreted in the desired way.References
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