Idioms observed through the prism of ethnolinguistics

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Marčeta, J. (2019). Idioms observed through the prism of ethnolinguistics: Food as the expression of the metaphorical language of the Serbian, French and Italian, 67(1), 173-185. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611901173M
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Title

Idioms observed through the prism of ethnolinguistics

Subtitle

Food as the expression of the metaphorical language of the Serbian, French and Italian

Author

Jovana, Marčeta

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

1

Start page

173

End page

185

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URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611901173M

Date

2019-2020/03/24/17:31:56

Abstract

In this paper, we observe and compare the habits, customs, value system and metaphorical language of the Serbian, French and Italian, by using comparative-contrastive analysis of the idioms whose components denote food names (e.g. ser. dočekati s hlebom i solju; fr. la crème de la société; it. testa di cavolo). The results of our research show that despite the expected differences caused by particularities of national cultures, there are numerous similarities in the metaphorical language of the three nations (e.g. srp. dobar kao hleb, fr. bon comme du (bon) pain, it. buono come il pane). Among other things, these similarities may be influenced by the language affiliation to the European cultural circle.

Keywords

Serbian, French, Italian, metaphor, phraseology