“German Cosiness” as a feature of national character: contrastive and linguoculturological analysis.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2018.36.9Keywords:
linguo-culturology, linguo-culturological concept, linguo-specifics, language corpora, cosinessAbstract
Analysis of German linguo-cultural concept GEMÜTLICHKEIT objectification based on newspaper discourse proves it to be specific, even ethno-unique as the latter is a fragment of the emotional world of the German linguo-community, a part of their conceptual sphere. This concept reveals numerous connotations that form unique, only German linguo-cultural configuration. This makes it impossible to translate its name. The specific feature of the concept GEMÜTLICHKEIT is a special emotional state it expresses because the concept belongs to the man’s inner life analyzing meanings of the internal state and emotional mood.References
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