This master's thesis examines Slovenian, German, and Russian phraseological units containing the selected colour components black, white, and red. The aim of the thesis is to identify phraseological units containing these components in the source language, find their equivalents in the other two languages, and determine the degree of equivalence between them.
Slovenian phraseological units were collected from the linguistic portal Fran, German from Duden 11. Redewendungen, the online phraseological database Redensarten-Index, and the dictionary DWDS. Russian units were collected from several phraseological dictionaries and the Russian online portal Academic (Russian: Академик), which brings together dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The use of the phraseological units was examined using the online tool Sketch Engine, the Gigafida corpus and the Russian National Corpus (Russian: Национальный корпус русского языка, НКРЯ).
In determining the degree of equivalence (full, partial, substitute, and zero equivalence), both formal and semantic similarities were considered.
Four hypotheses were formulated, one of which predicted that the analysis would reveal a greater number of full equivalents between Slovenian and German than between Slovenian and Russian.
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