Abstract
The paremiological fund of any language most vividly reflects all national stereotypes, including conceptions and attitudes of one ethnic group toward another, which is the subject of imagology studies. As part of proverbs, ethnonyms acquire various extralinguistic connotations connected with historical and cultural associations, strive for metaphorical and metonymic transfer of meaning, form that part of the linguistic picture of the world that is responsible for value judgments about representatives of other nationalities. In this chapter we’ll compare the corpus of English and Czech proverbs containing an ethnonym component, look for proverbial parallels with ethnonyms in English and Czech, and analyze the frequency of their usage.
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Sergienko, O.S. (2023). Proverbs with Ethnonyms in Czech and English Languages. In: Kotova, M.Y., Lauhakangas, O. (eds) Proverbs Are Never Neutral. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32646-2_8
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