Structuri frazeologice ale termenului bubă în limba română. O perspectivă etnolingvistică [Articol]

Abstract

This study aims to explore the way to highlight the significance of images related to diseases generically called bube in the structure of phraseologisms, highlighting, in particular, their relationship with the set of beliefs and superstitions with which they are associated. Thus, the phraseological structures based on the term bubă will be examined from the perspective of the role that the disease plays in the popular mentality, a role that we will outline through the information provided by folklore, ethnography, sociology and the history of mentalities. By analyzing how illness is conceptualized in language, a window is opened that allows a deep understanding of the popular mentality. Knowledge regarding illness and suffering thus constitutes a point of convergence between culture and nature, and the study of phraseologisms from an ethnolinguistic perspective provides a broad understanding of how language reflects and transmits human knowledge and beliefs.