Pseudo-equivalents in English, Italian and Polish faunal phraseology

• Autores: Joanna Szerszunowicz
• Localización: Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Lessicografia: Torino, 6-9 settembre 2006 / Elisa Corino (ed. lit.), Carla Marello (ed. lit.), Cristina Onesti (ed. lit.), Vol. 2, 2006, ISBN 88-7694-918-6, págs. 1055-1060
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper presents the phenomenon of faunal phraseological pseudo-equivalents, i.e. units containing an animal term in a contrastive perspective: in English, Italian and Polish. The pseudo-equivalents, 'traditional' idioms and combinations of the copular verb be and an animal name used figuratively, were excerpted from various lexicographic sources, both mono- and bilingual dictionaries, in order to gain an insight into the problem. The focal issue is the complicity of relations existent between phraseological pseudo-equivalents, which results in difficulties in linguistic as well as bilingual lexicographic descriptions of such units.