Similar and distinctive features of the metalanguage lexical-phraseological field in the Russian and English languages

Authors

  • Marina S. Gutovskaya Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

lexical-phraseological field, metalanguage nominative units, systematization of nominative stocks of different languages in terms of cross-language similarities and differences, distinction between lexemes and phrasemes in presentation of cross-language similarities and differences

Abstract

The paper revises the nature of cross-language similarities and differences in the lexical-phraseological context. It proposes a classification of nominative units (lexemes and phrasemes) of different languages by cross-language similarities and differences which takes into account linguistic, cultural and cognitive factors of formation of the two qualities. It demonstrates the possibilities of applying the classification by the example of the Russian and English metalanguage (connected with language and speech) lexical-phraseological fields. It determines the ratio of the similar and specific in the fields considered (1:1) and their lexical (1,3:1) and phraseological (1:1,4) parts. It accentuates that the data obtained disprove the popular opinion about ethno-specificity of phraseology as a whole.

Author Biography

  • Marina S. Gutovskaya, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; head of the department of English linguistics, faculty of philology

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Published

2019-02-27

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No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Linguistics

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Gutovskaya, M.S. 2019. Similar and distinctive features of the metalanguage lexical-phraseological field in the Russian and English languages. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Feb. 2019), 92–102.