The book presents a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values reflected in Anglo-American and Polish proverbs. The paremiological analysis carried out from a contrastive perspective provides additional evidence supporting the claim about the existence of distinct axiological differences specific only to a given linguo-culture.
Bożena Kochman-Haładyj has been affiliated with the English Department of Modern Languages at the University of Rzeszow, Poland, where she holds a teaching and research position in the section of Contemporary and Historical English and Comparative Linguistics. Her scientific interests embrace sociolinguistics, semantics, paremiology, contrastive paremiology, linguistic culturology.