The main purpose of the publication is to present a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values (such as the value of life, freedom, dignity, family, religion, community, truth, good, beauty, and God) reflected in Anglo-American and Polish paremiological units.

Autorentext

Bozena Kochman-Häadyj has been affiliated with the English Department of Modern Languages at the University of Rzeszow, Poland, where she holds a teaching and research position in the section of Contemporary and Historical English and Comparative Linguistics. Her scientific interests embrace sociolinguistics, semantics, paremiology, contrastive paremiology, linguistic culturology, axiolinguistics.

Inhalt

List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - Introductory Word: Aims, Method, and Research Material - Proverbs: Theoretical Underpinnings - Values: Conceptual Framework - Semantic Analysis of Traditional Values Encoded in Anglo-American and Polish Proverbs: Comparison and Contrast - Conclusion - References - Bibliographic Note - Index of Names - Index of Notions - Summary - Annotation