Uzbek and english proverbs
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3. UZBEK AND ENGLISH PROVERBS
Linguists' various perspectives on the notion of proverbs and sayings
A proverb is a short phrase that conveys a truth or practical information. It is frequently founded on intuition or actual experience. Proverbs have the effect of expressing wisdom as self-evident. The same adage is frequently repeated by various persons. True proverbs are sayings that have been passed down from generation to generation, typically by word of mouth, but may also have been written down. The book of Proverbs in the Old Testaments of the Bible has a remarkable collection of sayings such as "Hope delayed makes the heart ill," "A good name is preferable to large wealth," and "A good name is preferable to big riches." Every language has its unique collection of proverbs, and proverbs in one language now reflect every generation and historical period. It includes sharp observations of ordinary life, popular philosophy of life, and insights into human behavior and character. A proverb (from the Latin proverbium) is a short and specific phrase that is widely known and repeated and reflects a truth based on common sense or human experience. Proverbs describe a group of people's knowledge, and they become their life tenets. However, a proverb, according to Mieder (1993), is a brief, well known folk phrase that incorporates wisdom, truth, values, and traditional beliefs in a metaphorical, fixed, and memorable form that is passed down from generation to generation. Proverbs are a source of phraseological derivation A phraseological unit is a non-motivated word-group that cannot be formed up freely in speech but is replicated as a ready-made unit. The frequent usage of phraseological units in speech as single immutable collocations is referred to as reproducibility. The fact that no substitution of any component is allowed in the following stereotyped (unchangeable) set expressions, which differ in many other ways, demonstrates the lexical and grammatical stability of phraseological units. The location of proverbs, sayings, and well-known quotes in relation to fixed terms is a contentious matter. A proverb is a brief known epigrammatic phrase that expresses common wisdom, truth, or a moral lesson in a compact and inventive manner. Proverbs from all nations have much in common, yet there are distinctive characteristics that identify the color of a Download 22.52 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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