The associative meaning of standard images in Russian and German idiomatic expressions of comparison

Abstract

This article undertakes a comparative analysis of the associative meaning of standard images in the Russian and German idiomatic expressions of comparison on the basis of their use in texts of national corpora. The following relation between the analyzed words are determined: equivalence, intersection, discrepancy and lacunarity. These demonstrate different associative content of semantically identical language units.

Keywords

• устойчивое сравнение
• ассоциативный потенциал слова
• эталон сравнения