Phraseological units - ill-wishes addressed to a deceiver / slanderer in the modern Tatar language: A structural and component analysis
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-41-47
Abstract
The article is devoted to the structural and component analysis of phraseological units - ill-wishes, addressed to the deceiver / slanderer, in the modern Tatar language. Besides the new dialectal material used in our research, its novelty is due to the appeal to one of the little-studied topics in Tatar phraseology. The study of ill-wishes as a fragment of archaic beliefs allows us to reveal the deep cultural values of the Tatar people. To this day, ill-wishes have preserved elements of sacredness and ritualism.
The analysis of the phraseological units - ill-wishes, addressed to the deceiver / slanderer, showed: 1) they are addressed to the offender for undeservedly inflicted mental or physical pain; 2) from the point of view of the presence/absence of connotation, phraseological units of ill-wishes are classified as emotionally expressive ones, conveying a negative assessment; 3) these units are formed according to two models “subject + predicate (the verb in the imperative mood)” and “subject + predicate (the verb in the optative mood)”; 4) two-component and three-component phraseological units prevail; 5) when forming ill-wishes somatisms are frequently used: авыз ‘mouth’, баш ‘head’, йөз ‘face’, күз ‘eye’, тел ‘tongue’, урт ‘inner part of the cheek’, эч ‘belly’.
About the Authors
S. A. Kostsova
Sterlitamak Branch of Ufa University of Science and Technology
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kostsova Svetlana Alexandrovna, Assistant Professor,
2 October Ave., Sterlitamak, 453120
F. S. Saifullina
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Saifullina Fleur Sagitovna, Doctor of Philology, Professor,
18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russian Federation.
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Kostsova S.A., Saifullina F.S. Phraseological units - ill-wishes addressed to a deceiver / slanderer in the modern Tatar language: A structural and component analysis. Philology and Culture. 2025;(2):41-47. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-80-2-41-47
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