Lexicological studies require the analytical depth that is indispensable to the lexical semantic analysis, that is, the notion of conceptualisation in cognitive studies and the broad perspective that includes etymology and ...

The following article explores the usage and transformations of various proverbs in contemporary Russian newspaper headlines. The different types of structural and semantic changes of the proverbs are studied. The most ...

The paper presents the problem of translating phraseology from the Czech language into Bulgarian and Serbian. We have looked for the functional equivalence of the phrases and idioms and illustrated it with examples from ...

The purpose of this paper is to systematically show dialectical phraseological researches in Croatia as well as to present the most important conclusions obtained by fieldwork. There has recently been a lot of interest in ...

The paper deals with common zoonymic roots in Croatian, Polish and Russian in comparison with Old-Slavic (or Proto-Slavic). The ultimate purpose of this research is a presentation of zoonymes (apellative nouns of animals), ...

Sybilla of Zrinski is a book of divination from Zrinski palace in Čakovec and a very finely illustrated 17th-century Latin manuscript from the 17th century, rendered and remade from the Hungarian. The paper presents an ...

Phraseological competence is essential in second language acquisition when students aim at fluency. Furthermore, it is also a part of the culture of which students expect to have a good command. The purpose of this paper ...

The use of phraseological units in newspaper articles is a clear example of intelligent linguistic creativity. Fixed expressions have the ability to adapt to the contexts in which they are included in various ways. By means ...

The article is an attempt of semantic analysis of Bulgarian phraseologisms with the main component somatism expressing the feeling of anger. The point of gravity in it is placed in the symptoms of anger solidified in the ...

In some cases, the figurative motivation may be easily deduced from the transparent meaning of a phraseological unit (PU); however, decoding phraseological units that are completely idiomatic is far more difficult. Setting ...