Contrasts in the German national character: concepts of FERNWEH and HEIMWEH

Abstract

This article is to research further into the matter of translation methods for studying linguistic specificity of words – names of concepts, based on the procedures that involve methodology of corpus linguistics. This method has allowed us to study unique ethnic meanings of the linguo-culturally relevant concept FERNWEH and to define its semantic correlate – the concept HEIMWEH which one can use to transfer unique meanings of the concept FERNWEH to the consciousness of representatives of Ukrainian linguo-community.

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К. І. Мізін

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К. І. Мізін (2017). Contrasts in the German national character: concepts of FERNWEH and HEIMWEH. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія», 29(2), 67-69. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-462595