Russian Language Studies (Dec 2013)

Lexical and phraseological means of creating national and cultural dominant in N.S. Leskov’s short novels of 1870—1880

  • L N Lumpova,
  • N V Ryzhova

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 4
pp. 52 – 60

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The article characterizes short novels of N.S. Leskov written in 1870—1880. The article analyzes lexical and phraseological means of creating national and cultural dominance — native Russian vocabulary, set expressions, proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, idioms with the meaning of evaluation, metaphorization of set expressions. Thus we reveal the author’s intention.

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