Published: 2024-02-12

Diversity of non-equivalent lexical units in a language lesson: observation, analysis and recommendations (on material of Russian in contrast to German and Polish)

Wojciech Paweł Sosnowski Logo ORCID , Svetlana Olegovna Ahlborn Logo ORCID

Abstract

Any natural language contains several lexical units that do not have equivalents in other language systems. In certain lan­guages, we can observe linguistic units that have a cultural background, as they are associated with the history, customs and experience of a given people and their linguistic imagery of the world. These units are especially noticeable when we compare any languages, compile bilingual and multilingual phraseological or explanatory dictionaries, teach foreign lan­guages or do translation work. In our study, using Russian-language educational materials, language intuition and corpus data, we collected, analyzed, and classified examples of lingua-specific words and expressions for which due to linguistic realities there are non-translational communicative correlates in German and Polish. Our observations could be of interest not only for researchers and teachers but also for foreign language learners.

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Sosnowski, W. P., & Ahlborn, S. O. (2024). Diversity of non-equivalent lexical units in a language lesson: observation, analysis and recommendations (on material of Russian in contrast to German and Polish). Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (1 (185), 220–240. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.15873

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No. 1 (185) (2024)
Published: 2024-02-12


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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