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• Sésame, ouvre-toi: internationalisme phraséologique à contenu universel

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  • P. Golda
  • O. Karabag
  • J. Ryszka

  - Studia Linguistica - Year 2023

  Phraseological units, characterised by their opaque meaning, are the subject of multiple theoretical works. The following article adds to this discussion by providing another interesting example. It analyses the case of the Arabic phraseological unit ‘open sesame’ from the “Ali Baba and the Forty Thievesˮ folk tale, permeating into French, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese – languages distant both linguistically and culturally....

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