PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS DENOTING AGE IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-6-88-92
The paper is devoted to the study of the phraseological units which denote age in the Chinese language. The analysis of such phraseological units is coherent with the main principle of the language athropocentricty when a human being is made a cornerstone of modern linguistic studies and a starting point in analysing the language phenomena. There are a lot of fixed phrases in the Chinese language which are connected with the semantic sphere of age. But nevertheless the analysis of the phraseological units according to different age groups hasn’t been carried out yet. In the present article the author analyses phraseological units which name childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The conclusion is made that there are some characteristics which are peculiar to the Chinese language and Chinese linguo-culture. These peculiarities are determined by the belonging of this national and cultural community to the eastern type of culture. And these distinctive features are expressed in the existence of a large spectrum of phraseological units which denote the age of a person through the whole life span. These phraseological units add expressivenss, figurativeness, profoundness, flexibility to the Chinese language. They express folk wisdom which has been received during the long history of China.
Keywords: age, phraseological units, childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood, old age
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Issue: 6, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE RESEARCH IN MODERN LINGUISTICS
Pages: 88 — 91
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