Open AccessArts and Humanities

Gjoko Nikolovski

2023.12.29Slavia Centralis

DOI: 10.18690/scn.16.2.114-131.2023

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This paper explores linguistic images of poverty and wealth through Slovenian phraseological material, supporting sociological views on their associations with various concepts.

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to show the linguistic image of poverty and wealth through the prism of phraseological material from the Slovenian language The research material will be classified into two large groups, namely poverty and wealth, each of which is further divided into subgroups based on semantic analysis. The sociological view of both phenomena supports the initial hypothesis being that poverty is reflected in idioms associated with a lack of money, food, clothing, loss of home, debt and livelihood, while wealth is associated with birth rights, large amounts of money, well-being and a wasteful life-style.

Citation format

NIKOLOVSKI, Gjoko. Bogastvo in revščina v slovenski frazeologiji. Slavia Centralis, 2023.