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A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units By Alenka Vrbinc A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units By Alenka Vrbinc This book first published 2019 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2019 by Alenka Vrbinc All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-3049-3 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-3049-2 CONTENTS List of Abbreviations ............................................................................... viii List of Tables and Figures ......................................................................... ix Preface ........................................................................................................ x Chapter One ................................................................................................ 1 Introduction 1.1 Definition and classification of proper names ................................. 1 1.2 Onomastic terminology ................................................................... 5 1.3 Generic terms for multi-word lexical items .................................... 9 1.4 Characteristic features of phraseological units .............................. 12 Chapter Two ............................................................................................. 17 Methodology for Compilation of the Databases 2.1 Criteria for the database selection of phraseological units with proper names ......................................................................... 17 2.2 The compilation of the English database ...................................... 19 2.3 The compilation of the Slovene database ...................................... 19 Chapter Three ........................................................................................... 24 Proper Names in English and Slovene Phraseological Units by Groups, Common Themes and Source Domains 3.1 Anthroponyms and their derivatives in English and Slovene phraseological units ....................................................................... 24 3.2 Topnonyms and their derivatives in English and Slovene phraseological units ....................................................................... 28 3.3 Anthroponyms, toponyms and their derivatives numerically........ 30 3.4 A common theme or subject in English and Slovene phraseological units ....................................................................... 34 vi Contents Chapter Four ............................................................................................. 46 Phraseology and Etymology 4.1 The role of etymology in the comprehension and retention of phraseological units .................................................................. 46 4.2 The inclusion of etymological information about English and Slovene onomastic phraseological units in English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries ....................................... 48 4.3 The main sources of origin of phraseological units ...................... 64 4.3.1 Textual sources ..................................................................... 65 4.3.2 Greek and Roman mythology ............................................... 77 4.3.3 Real people ........................................................................... 78 4.3.4 Nationalities ......................................................................... 82 4.3.5 History and historical events ................................................ 83 4.3.6 Ancient life and history ........................................................ 85 4.3.7 Army and warfare ................................................................. 86 4.3.8 The world of entertainment .................................................. 88 4.3.9 Other etymological sources .................................................. 88 4.4 Etymological information lacking in informativeness .................. 95 Chapter Five ............................................................................................. 98 Phraseology and Culture 5.1 Language and culture 5.2 Universality and cultural specificity of phraseological units ...... 101 5.3 Cultural specificity of English and Slovene onomastic phraseological units ..................................................................... 106 5.3.1 Phraseological units with anthroponymic constituents ....... 107 5.3.2 Phraseological units with toponymic constituents .............. 116 5.4 Concluding remarks .................................................................... 124 Chapter Six ............................................................................................. 126 Phraseology and Ethnic Stereotypes 6.1 Definition of stereotype and theoretical framework.................... 126 6.2 Stereotypical phraseological units in English ............................. 139 6.3 Stereotypical phraseological units in Slovene ............................. 146 6.4 Concluding remarks .................................................................... 151 A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene vii Onomastic Phraseological Units Chapter Seven ......................................................................................... 154 Cross-Linguistic Translation of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units 7.1 Equivalence and non-equivalence in cross-linguistic comparison from a theoretical perspective .................................. 154 7.2 Equivalents of the English and Slovene onomastic phraseological units ..................................................................... 164 7.2.1 Equivalents with onyms ..................................................... 165 7.2.2 Idiomaticity and non-idiomaticity of equivalents ............... 168 7.2.3 Equivalents of biblical PUs ................................................ 173 7.3 Concluding remarks .................................................................... 175 Appendix 1: English Onomastic Phraseological Units ........................... 179 Appendix 2: Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units .......................... 244 References .............................................................................................. 281 Dictionaries ....................................................................................... 281 Other sources .................................................................................... 283 Bible versions ................................................................................... 300 Corpora ............................................................................................. 300 Internet sources ................................................................................. 300 Index ....................................................................................................... 302 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CCDI2 Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 2nd edition CID2 Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd edition DITO Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins ICOS International Council of Onomastic Sciences L1 first language L2 second language LID Longman Idioms Dictionary ODI Oxford Dictionary of Idioms OED Oxford English Dictionary OIDLE2 Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English, 2nd edition PU phraseological unit RHWUD2 Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd edition sb somebody SL source language sth something TL target language LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 3-1: Onomastic components in English and Slovene PUs numerically by type. Table 4-1: The inclusion of etymology in the English phraseological dictionaries. Table 4-2: The inclusion of etymology in the Dictionary of Slovene Idioms. Table 7-1: Non-idiomatic equivalents in the English and Slovene databases. Table 7-2: Idiomatic equivalents in the English and Slovene databases. Figure 1-1: Senses of idiom in the OED. PREFACE Phraseology has been a focus of interest and research for ethnologists and folklorists since the time of pre-Romanticism and Romanticism and began to be investigated by linguists as late as the 20th century. It is a rich source of many theoretical and practical linguistic studies dealing with various aspects of fixed expressions in a particular language, such as meaning, whether literal or figurative, structure, use and etymology. To date, most phraseological research has been done with relatively few languages, at first with Russian and German, which is understandable as Russian (e.g., Vinogradov 1946; Amosova 1963; Chernysheva 1970; Kunin 1970) and German (e.g., Rothkegel 1973; Häusermann 1977; Koller 1977) linguists were among the first to study phraseology. Phraseology was also the subject of research in French, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and Polish, as well as fairly recently in Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Spanish, Dutch, Icelandic and Danish, whereas phraseological research is in its infancy in Greek, Italian, Lithuanian and Latvian (Piirainen 2005: 54–55; Piirainen 2008: 220–221; Colson 2008: 192–193). However, for more than 80% of the languages
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