RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics (Dec 2010)
Reconstruction of fragments of ethnical sphere of concepts of the French language in Sub-Saharan Africa (case study of «Broken Glass» by A. Mabanckou)
Abstract
The analysis of cultural concepts verbalised by universally known phrases in literary texts allows to reconstruct certain fragments of the ethnical sphere of concepts, which reflects objects, knowledge and traditions inherent in a specific nation.