Metadata (abstracts and keywords) for the articles in the journal
E. V. Nikolaeva, A. I. Savelyeva THE CONCEPT OF NATURE IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH METAPHOR RIDDLES (COMPARATIVE ASPECT) // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2021. № 2(111). p. 116-123
Author(s):
E. V. Nikolaeva, A. I. Savelyeva
Index of UDK:
[398.6:502](=161.1):(=111)
Index of DOI:
10.37972/chgpu.2021.111.2.014
Name of article:
THE CONCEPT OF NATURE IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH METAPHOR RIDDLES (COMPARATIVE ASPECT)
Keywords:
riddle, Russian riddle, English riddle, metaphor, natural phenomena, nature
Abstracts:
This article analyzes the Russian and English riddles containing a metaphor and devoted to the theme “Nature”. The contribution of the riddle to folk art is significant and this fact makes it possible to recreate the picture of the world of the peoples of the past. This work makes an attempt to summarize the current knowledge on the issue of the Russian and English riddles as well as to study metaphorical riddles. The relevance of this work is due to the interest in the symbolic representation of nature in the genre of metaphorical riddles and the lack of works devoted to this narrow topic. The study employs the methods of analysis, comparison, generalization and contextual interpretation. The main similarities between Russian and English riddles are vivid allegorical representations of objects and natural phenomena, animation of flora and fauna, natural elements, and symbolism. The main differences lie in the number of riddles devoted to a particular topic, discrepancies in the flora and fauna represented, and the employed connotation.
The contact details of authors:
Николаева Елена Витальевна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары; e-mail: elenarosa09@gmail.com
Савельева Анна Ивановна – студентка 2 курса факультета иностранных языков Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары; e-mail: annasb01@mail.ru
