A contrastive study of intersubjective phrasemes: Unconventional phraseological replies to What time is it? in Slovenian, Slovak, Polish, and Russian

Matej Meterc

doi:10.54103/milanoup.305

A contrastive study of intersubjective phrasemes: Unconventional phraseological replies to What time is it? in Slovenian, Slovak, Polish, and Russian

Authors

Matej Meterc

Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0198-3745 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.305.c732

Synopsis

Unconventional phraseological replies such as ‘Time to get a watch’ to a question What time is it? are based on different mechanisms to establish a link with the target statement of person A (a stimulus). Recently, some contrastive phraseological studies have been conducted on unconventional replies in Slavic languages. This article shows the potential of such studies using the example of phraseological replies to stimuli with the same meaning (‘What time is it?’) in Slovenian, Slovak, Polish, and Russian.

Author Biography

Matej Meterc, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

Matej Meterc is a researcher at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an assistant professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. His research focuses on phraseology and paremiology. He contributes to the third edition of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language (eSSKJ; 2016–). He is the chief editor of the Dictionary of Proverbs and Similar Paremiological Expressions (2020–). He has published numerous articles, as well as two monographs: Paremiological Optimum: The Best-Known and Most Common Proverbs and Related Paremias in Slovenian (2017) and Unconventional Phraseological Replies in Slovenian (2026).