Pragmatic description of Russian proverbs composed of two infinitives
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-7-83-100
Abstract
The paper is devoted to the problems and results of pragmatic description of Russian proverbs precisely proverbs, composed of two infinitives (Inf cop Inf). As opposed to all the other sentences, proverbs bear universal, incontestable ideas, been “folk wisdom”. They are self-sufficient sentences, mini-texts. Folklorists, specialists in culturology, and phraseologists are used to study proverbs. There are a lot of dictionaries of Russian proverbs, where everybody can get information of its meaning. The pragmatics of these units, the way these units are used in dialog, speech acts the proverbs can express was not still analyzed accurately and requires special attention. Two groups of proverbs, divided on semantic-syntactic level, precisely the evaluative causal groups are under analysis to find out their pragmatic realizations. Pragmatic information of proverbs should be significant complement to traditional descriptions of proverbs in dictionaries and seems to be useful for teaching purposes at school and in teaching Russian for foreign students.
Supporting agencies: Authors wish to express gratitude to the unknown reviewers for their questions and remarks that let the authors to clarify in the article the explanation of some theoretical points.
About the Authors
Meng Wang
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Wang Meng – graduate student (Philology)
bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125993
I. A. Sharonov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor A. Sharonov – Dr. of Sci. (Philology), professor
bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125993
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Wang M., Sharonov I.A. Pragmatic description of Russian proverbs composed of two infinitives. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;21(7):83-100. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-7-83-100
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