Abstract

PLATONOVA, Elena; PANOVA, Elena; LOBANOVA, Julia  and  OTTS, Ekaterina. Teaching language and culture through the lexical features of Russian proverbs. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2025, vol.17, n.1  Epub Feb 27, 2025. ISSN 2218-3620.

This study explores the educational value of Russian proverbs through the lens of their lexical features, aiming to highlight their potential role in language learning and cultural education. Proverbs, as a concise and rich form of folk wisdom, offer unique opportunities for enhancing linguistic competence and fostering cultural understanding in an educational context. The study seeks to identify the key lexical-semantic groups within proverbs and explore how they can be integrated into language curricula to enrich students' learning experiences. The research utilizes qualitative methods including lexical-semantic analysis, comparison, and generalization. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that in the context of proverbs, a lexical unit not only realizes the meaning recorded in the explanatory dictionary but develops a new one that is not recorded in the literature. A new generalized meaning is formed as a result of distancing from the specific lexical meaning given in the explanatory dictionary. It is the figurative, imaginary, generalized lexical meaning that occupies a special place among all other meanings.

Keywords : Proverb; Generalized lexical meaning; Semantic group; Proper names.

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