Semantics of Idioms Containing Names of Body Parts in English, Slovak, and Hungarian (A Comparative Study)

Series Philologica Issues Volume 16, No. 2, 2024 Semantics of Idioms Containing Names of Body Parts in English, Slovak, and Hungarian (A Comparative Study)

Volume 16, No. 2, 2024

Marta LACKOVÁ, Brigita BERNÁTHOVÁ

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 16, 2 (2024) 193–207

DOI: 10.47745/ausp-2024-0024

Abstract. The main objective of the paper is to study idioms containing names of body parts in the English, Slovak, and Hungarian languages.The traits of the selected idioms are investigated in terms of semantics. The research sample, which includes fifty idioms with the body part keyword, is inspected with the help of both quantitative and qualitative methods. To give the research a theoretical basis, it is firstly explored how idioms are understood within these typologically diverse languages in the matter of their typical features, and classifications from the viewpoint of semantics. As a result, the investigated idioms were divided into eight groups in accordance with the discovered semantic similarities and differences across the studied languages. Furthermore, the research outputs demonstrate that there appear six groups of idioms considering the correspondence of keywords of the studied idioms in English, Slovak, and Hungarian. The principal benefit of the study is the examination of the given lexical units in a trilingual environment of typologically different languages.

Keywords: idiom, semantics, comparative analysis, typologically diverse languages

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