PECULIARITIES OF PARAGON NAMES TRANSLATION
Journal: Linguistic Bulletin
Year: 2024

Paragon names are linguistic means which are culturally charged and reflect the system of values of a definite linguo-cultural community because their primary referents are considered to be prototypes, the best examples of certain qualities and/or actions, which allows paragon names to nominate these qualities and, as a result, to be used to characterize other subjects/objects. The set of paragon names is relatively unique for each culture which creates difficulties of their perception and trans