Particularities of the formulaic aspect of proverbs
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: For any researcher, examining a corpus of proverbs highlights a schematic scenario that ensures their resilience over time and their circulation across vast spaces, as well as their ability to (self-)regenerate in diverse contexts, altering details in accordance with ever-renewed reference systems and the changing possibilities of reception by an increasingly large audience. Universal conceptual data (life, death, good, evil, human qualities and defects, the universe, nature – mobilised to signify human nature) correspond to several patterns, several compositional characteristics that constitute the canvas for the arrangement of meanings. Practically, some researchers argue, the paremiological treasures of peoples rely on a vast action of compositional “calque” and the recurrence of certain ideas and images.
Author: Emel M. ISMAIL
Institution: Ovidius University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7033029620
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