Comparative phenomena about phraseology in the animal theme field

• Author: Lindita Çifçi
• Position: State Inspectorate of Education
• Pages: 220-227

Vol. 2 No. 2

July 2016

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Comparativephenomenaaboutphraseologyintheanimalthemeeld

MSc. Lindita Çifçi

State Inspectorate of Education

Abstract

Every language has its own history and structure of development and it is in a gradual and

continuous process of change moving in an unconscious way from one kind to another, so in

dierentlanguageswedistinguishanalogicaldevelopmentSaphirwasoneoftherst

linguistics and anthropologists who developed the linguistic discipline and in an interlingual

comparisonheidentied thatlanguagesdier fromoneanotherbutsomediermorethan

others.

Phraseological units deriving from a certain language do not remain isolated within the same

language. They travel from one language to another due to relationships between people

and languages. This happens because during these centennial relationships, people have ex-

changednotonlygoodsbutevenculturalvaluesAsaresultinourrststepsofresearchthere

is a need to know and decide on phraseological types in each language, as well as comparison

withotherlanguagestond outwhatis commonandwhat isspecialamongthemOne of

the main reasons of analogies in phraseology stays on similar or approximate concepts of

objects and features of everyday life. Having into consideration the fact that the main source

of phraseological units is the material world with a great variety and a wide range of clothes,

tools, domestic animals, parts of human body, food and cooking, weapons and hunting ob-

jects, tribal relationships, job processes etc. we are going to analyse in this manuscript this

phraseological phenomena.

Keywords: phraseologyphenomenaanimaleldvocabulary

Introduction

In this study we refer to phraseological units formed about the world of domestic

animals, thus referring to phraseologyial dictionaries in Italian, English and French,

as well the Albanian Phraseological Dictionary.

Through the comparison of phraseology in these languages, we could see cultural,

social changes that belong to the lexical eld of animal world according to the

perception of each nation.

Animals have been used by people since the dawn of humanity, for protection, for

friendships or even for food. That is why there is no surprise that the image of an

animal is being used to express human characteristics.

They are already known since Ancient Greece, through Aesop’s tales, where animals’

features are compared to human characteristics through metaphorical meaning.

There are a great number of examples that connect animal and human features

through metaphorical usage such as the portrait of a man with masculine features

compared to a dog, a pig, a horse, a lion, a wolf, a snake etc and feminine features in

a chicken, a cat, a cow or a fox.

According to Jaritz (Otium, 1997, 5) human behavior can be explained compared to