Analysis of English and Tatar Proverbs With a Gender Component

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201212.060How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender, folklore, culture, proverb, proverbial markers, outer form, semantics, national peculiarity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the gender approach to the analysis of folklore in different linguistic cultures. Folklore in linguistic cultures is represented in different spectra of the language, but the most vivid is the level of proverbs, sayings and aphorisms. For this reason proverbs and sayings have always attracted attention of many scholars. However, the gender approach to analyzing folklore in different linguistic cultures has not been applied before. In present study we make an attempt to analyze the proverbs with gender component in English and Tatar linguistic cultures languages from the point of view of their proverbial markers, particularly their outer form, semantic mechanisms of their formation, syntactic structure and consequently the national peculiarities of proverbs in these two languages. The study shows that English and Tatar proverbs are mainly based on the same semantic mechanisms; both have peculiar outer form, but have a different syntactic structure, which can be explained by different type of word order and different means of language economy. Gender component contributes to the peculiarity of proverbs, especially in the way of forming metaphors and paradoxes, but does not play the most important role in reflecting the folklore peculiarity of the linguistic culture.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rezeda Mukhtarova
AU  - Evgenia Tsyganova
AU  - Svetlana Radionova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - Analysis of English and Tatar Proverbs With a Gender Component
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Digital Age: Traditions, Modernity and Innovations (ICDATMI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 302
EP  - 307
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201212.060
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201212.060
ID  - Mukhtarova2020
ER  -