Communicative and Functional Approach to Studying Representation of Silence Phenomenon in Proverbs and Sayings (by the Material of the Russian, English and German Folk Aphorisms)
Denisova Elena Aleksandrovna, Lipatova Yuliya Yur'evna
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Kazan State Medical University
Submitted: 16.01.2020
Abstract. The article is devoted to studying the functional aspect of folk aphorisms about silence in the Russian, English and German languages. The authors identify the following functions of silence in proverbs and sayings: axiological, prescriptive, constative, informative, emotive ones. The study aims to reveal common and specific features of the silence phenomenon in the Russian, English and German linguistic worldviews. The research findings allow concluding that silence is a multifunctional phenomenon that acquires different interpretations in the analysed linguo-cultures.
Key words and phrases: молчание, паремия, пословица, поговорка, русский язык, английский язык, немецкий язык, сопоставительное языкознание, silence, paroemia, proverb, saying, Russian language, English language, German language, comparative linguistics
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