Proper Names in Phraseme Constructions

Anna Pavlova; Paola Maria Cotta Ramusino

doi:10.54103/milanoup.233

Proper Names in Phraseme Constructions

Authors

Anna Pavlova

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-5778 (unauthenticated)

Paola Maria Cotta Ramusino

University of Milan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5016-7568 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.233.c768

Synopsis

This study examines the roles of proper names (PNs) in phraseological constructions (PhCs), focusing on their semantic, pragmatic, and cultural dimensions. PNs serve referential, metaphorical, and symbolic functions, enriched by cultural specificity and pragmatic effects. The research highlights semantic constraints in slot-filling and explores variability in name forms. Findings emphasize PNs' unique contribution to the expressive power of PhCs, offering insights for linguistic, cultural, and pragmatic analysis.

Author Biographies

Anna Pavlova, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

is a Research Fellow at the Slavic Department, Faculty “Language. Translation. Culture” at the University of Mainz (Germany). Her research interests include grammar, translation, phonetics, intonology. Her current work focuses on phraseme constructions and their semantics, pragmatics, grammar, and prosody, with an emphasis on contrastive Russian–German analysis. She is developing a comprehensive, didactically-oriented online repository of phraseme constructions.
Selected publications: Ot lingvistiki k mifu (ed., 2013); Trubočist ili lord? (2015, with L. Naidič); Perevodčeskij bilingvizm (2016, with I. Ovčinnikova); Deutsch-russisches und russisch-deutsches Wörterbuch der Paronyme (2022), Textbook of Russian Phraseology (2022), Thesaurus für die Förderung der Textproduktion für Deutsch- und Russischlernende (2022).

Paola Maria Cotta Ramusino, University of Milan

is a Full Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan. She graduated from the University of Pavia and earned a PhD in Slavic Studies from Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on Russian and Slavic linguistics, with particular attention to morphosyntax, lexicon, and phraseology. In this area, she studies phraseological units from a cognitive perspective and within the framework of Construction Grammar, as evidenced by her coordination of the Frame project (with F. Mollica), numerous national and international publications, the monograph Lexicon and Phraseology in the Post-Revolutionary Decade (2018), and the co-edited volume Contrastive Phraseology. Languages and Cultures in Comparison (with F. Mollica, 2020). Her recent work explores phraseological units as discourse markers and the image component of idiomatic expressions.Inizio modulo