Shim Young-Bo. 1999. Linguistic Cultural Potentiality Possessing Phraseological Expressions in Russian. Studies in Modern Grammar 18, 55-69. The purpose of research in this thesis is to analyze the peculiarity of phraseological expressions of modern Russian based on a linguistic cultural theory which is initially researched by Veretshagin and Kostomarov in the 1970s and is gradually developed by other scholars in the standpoint for foreign learners. As the phraseological expressions including proverb, aphorism and idiom entail ethnic custom and national cultural characteristics formed for a long time, the use of the expressions might be difficult to native as well as to foreigners who try to present sophisticated linguistic expression. The phraseological expressions involve denotative meaning possessing commonly general word, significative meaning and connotative meaning showing national cultural sentiment. In particular, there are many illustrations that the connotative meaning would not be only understood by a pure lexical meaning without cultural and regional explication. The analysis of the historical linguistics of phraseological expressions and the contrastive analysis between two languages for foreigners are indispensable for perfect understanding and appropriate use of speakers about the connotative meaning. In this thesis, to define the cultural peculiarity possessing the phraseological expressions of Russian language, the course of historical development and phraseological background is analyzed and the contrastive analysis of phraseological expressions between Russian and Korean language is attempted to help comprehension in the practical aspect.

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