| Title: | Analysis of the connotative and denotative meanings of the term ”Dragon” (balaur) as it appears in the Romanian phytonymy |
| Author: | Radu Drăgulescu |
| Publication: | Journal of Romanian Literary Studies, 10, p. 104-110 |
| e-ISSN: | 2248-3004 |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | Many of the Romanian phytonyms are directly related to the dragon („balaur”). Like in other folkloric creations, in our ethnobotany this being has a majority of evil representations, portraited as a ferocious living form. Our paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistic of Romanian names of plants which implicates the word „balaur”, spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Coşeriu is not enough highlighted (given that the individual speaker became creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower. Botanical popular terminology has primarily a practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both by the ethimons to which they send back and by the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have. |
| Key words: | Romanian phytonyms, conotation, denotation, etnobothany, balaur, dragon |
| Language: | Romanian |
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