Die Bewertung des Menschen – Dummheit im Lichte der deutschen und polnischen Phraseologie (am lexikografischen Material)

• Authors: Anna Gondek

Title variants

EN

The assessment of the human being – stupidity in the light of German and Polish phraseology

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article gives an overwiew of Polish and German phrasemes, which describe a person who is considered stupid, inept and foolish. The related stupidity semantic field includes a very large number of idioms that address / focus different aspects of this property. There are idioms with both the adjective stupid / głupi or nouns stupidity / głupota, fool / głupiec (and their synonyms) that is, those which the assessment explicitly communicate, as well as many phrases that do not contain these lexemes and implicitly verbalize the stupidity of people and also describe it euphemistic.

Keywords

EN

Polish; German; stupidity; foolishness; assessment / valuation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 138
• Pages: 83 - 93

Contributors

author

Anna Gondek

• Wrocław