Abstract:In the article, the authors analyze Russian anti-proverbs about COVID-19 that became popular on the internet during the pandemic. The anti-proverbs under study describe the most important parts of people’s lives that were changed during the pandemic: the new disease, life in quarantine, working in quarantine, and fighting with the disease. These five spheres allowed dividing all the anti-proverbs into five semantic modules bearing the same names. The substitutes in the anti-proverbs are semantically related to… Show more
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