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  • November 25, 2009
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THE PRESENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PICTURES BY THE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS OF PEJORATIVE AND MELIORATIVE CONNOTATIONS

Abstract

In the article the analysis of the Russian and English language pictures is presented with singling out the features of the given nations and their mentalities by means of the expression of the emotions of approval and disapproval with the help of the phraseological units with meliorative and pejorative connotations.

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Seda Vitalyevna Leskina

Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University

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Publication history

  • Published: November 25, 2009.

Keywords

  • языковая картина
  • пейоративная коннотация
  • мелиоративная коннотация
  • эмоции одобрения
  • эмоции неодобрения
  • language picture
  • pejorative connotation
  • meliorative connotation
  • emotions of approval
  • emotions of disapproval

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