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NATIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONS. NATIONAL WORLD PERCEPTION - Coggle Diagram
NATIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONS. NATIONAL WORLD PERCEPTION
Look at these expressions and decide what reality they relate to :check:
“Long winter droughts”
“June is the middle of winter”
“January is the hottest month”
“February 1 - the beginning of the school year”
Australia is located in Earth’s the southern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere includes the countries :check:
Australia
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
In the vocabulary of the language, researchers identify the layers of vocabulary that most clearly express national identity:
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non-equivalent
connotative
background vocabulary
The animalistic symbol of Australia, perhaps even more striking than a kangaroo, koala or emu, although not so exotic, is a
sheep
For many years, the country's economy was characterized as “riding on sheep’s back”
Among the realities are some proper names or anthroponyms
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the word bradman — a promising cricketer - came from the name of the outstanding Australian cricketer Donald Bradman
Ned Kelly - the knight of forests and highways, about whom more than 300 ballads have been composed
Positive meaning - the personification of courage, bravery and justice of a man who robbed only the rich. E.g idiom as game as Ned Kelly = brave as Ned Kelly
Negative meaning "businessman-extortionist"
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names
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Onomastic realities include animal names, for example, horses, included in the background knowledge of the average Australian
The nickname of racehorse, Jack Rice, served as the basis of the idiom he has a roll that Jack Rice couldn't jump over (about a rich man who has a lot of money)
