جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "stable comparison" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

Paying attention to the culture-centered feature of language is a key point in the foreign language teaching. Language is a tool for transmitting culture, and at the same time, no language survives without culture. Language and culture are interrelated, and individual’s ability to learn a language is to a great extent dependent on his/her understanding level or his mastery of the culture. The lack of paying attention to the cultural aspects of language leads to the linguistic mistakes. As a highly-applied layer, the stable comparisons has been placed at the phraseological level of language, completely reflects the speakers’ viewpoints and cognition, and contains cultural codes. Ignoring this generative and highly applied linguistic layer and cultural codes defined therein will bring about linguistic-cultural interference. Using a comparative-analytic method as well as designating and administering a test, this study endeavors to investigate the ability of Iranian students of Russian Language in the recognition and mastery of this linguistic units and to further present some implications based on the results.

This study investigated the stable comparison (SC) describing human appearance in the Russian and Persian languages so that it can compare and analyze the languages picture of the word of these two languages through these cultural marked linguistic units which are considered as the total- reflection of the languages picture of the word. The SC are special layers of phraseological unit neglected by the researchers, and it can be said that they reflect their speakers’ lifestyle, mentality and cultural color more than other types of phraseological units . This study was within a cultural linguistics research formwork and was the first attempt to compare and investigate the SC between the Russian and Persian languages. This was a statistical, comparative-analytical study aiming to answer the following question: Is there any difference between the Russian and Persian languages regarding the covert language’s picture of the word of the SC? It tasted the hypothesis that since Iranian and Russian are different with respect to their belief, ethnicity, and geography of their living place, a trivial culture with common ground will be found, and the effect of these factors should generally be observed in their language’s picture of the word. The results of this study were divided into the quantitative and content categories. According to the quantitative results, the distribution of SC was 0.3% showing the low level of cultural common grounds between Russian and Iranian and the significant difference in their cultural linguistic picture which confirms the hypothesis. With respect to the content analysis of the studied samples, the factors such as religious elements, beliefs, and behaviors (Russian: beautiful like God- Persian: like Usef); the characters and figures of mythological and literature (Russian: Koschei, Kolobok- Persian: Rostam, Rakhsh); historical characters (Persian: Omar, Yazid); and geographical climate and living tools (Russian: Kolomna verst- Persian: Moshk Saqa) played the major role in creating the difference in the language’s picture of the word of these ethnics.