Italian Proverbs Research Articles

Sefarad, Türk ve İtalyan Atasözleri ve Deyimlerinde Anne: Çevrimiçi Bloglar Örneği

In this study, references to mothers in certain positive and negative circumstances in some Sephardic, Turkish, and Italian proverbs and idioms that depict the concept of mother will be analyzed. Fear and unhappiness as negative emotions, and joy and love as positive emotions in the Sephardic, Turkish, and Italian cultures will be observed within the framework of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson. Thus, this study will reveal that the mother is the person who reconciles the members of a family, alienates all the fears, loves unconditionally, builds up, directs, and protects a family in the Judeo-Spanish, Turkish, and Italian proverbs and idioms. The proverbs and idioms were formulated in the past. However, the contemporary concept of motherhood will also be analyzed in blogs for and by Sephardic, Turkish, and Italian mothers and compared to that depicted in proverbs and idioms, products of ancestors of nations for proving proverbs’ and idioms’ contemporary uses in modern blogs for revitalizing traditional beliefs. According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, some cognitive conceptualizations are formulated in the brains of people in accordance with the cultures to which they have been exposed. Briefly, in this study, the sacredness of the mothers in three different languages (Judeo-Spanish, Turkish, and Italian) and cultures will be emphasized, and this will be done with proverbs, idioms and online blogs belonging to three cultural groups.

Reflection of the concept “DONNA/WOMAN” in Italian proverbs and sayings

Reflection of the concept “DONNA/WOMAN” in Italian proverbs and sayings

Пареміологічна італомовна картина світу (міфологічна домінанта)

In the proposed research, the analysis of paremiological picture of the world of Italian language is performed; the notions of “picture of the world”, “linguistic picture of the world”, “paremiological picture of the world” are analyzed; the connection between the linguistic and paremiological picture of the world is distinguished; the frequency of using mythological proverbs with the proper name is set. According to the conducted research, it is possible to distinguish the following notions : 1) picture of the world is the way people see this world, how they communicate with each other, etc.; 2) linguistic picture of the world deals with the linguistic approach in seeing the world, how with the help of words people express their feelings towards different things; 3) paremiological picture of the world deals with proverbs and sayings, with the help of which people show their attitude to different things. As a result, it is possible to notice that this research of proper names in Italian proverbs in the paremiological picture of the world promotes reconstruction of one of important components of a national language picture of the world which is a cultural sphere of any language. We have distinguished that proverbs and sayings with the proper name are mythological, religious, historical, literal, toponymic, from various spheres of social and individual activity of native speakers. As a result, in the studied proverbs and sayings the features connected with mythology come to the first place among the rest of them. Never before have the scientists studied proper names in the light of meaning and form. While investigating proverbs with proper names it is possible to notice the link between ancient myths and modern mass media where we have found the majority of our examples during the research. And it is noticed that the majority of analyzed proverbs in mass media have examples in political and economic articles. From the studied proverbs and sayings we can make the conclusion that it is a vital source of national and cultural wisdom that is worth analyzing.

“Måske vil vi engang glædes ved at mindes dette”. Om Giacomo Castelvetros håndskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek

“Måske vil vi engang glædes ved at mindes dette”. Om Giacomo Castelvetros håndskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek

Концепт Хитрость в національних лінгвокультурах (на материале паремий украинского, русского, английского и итальянского языков)

The article deals with the contrastive research of concept “cunning” on the material of Ukrainian, Russian, English and Italian proverbs. In question universal and ethnic semantic components of the concept are described; the attempt is made to cast light on its cognitive connections, the status in the conceptual spheres of the national cultures. Based on the language facts the conclusions are made about ethnic peculiarities of world outlook, cultural and value orientations of the nations.

Enhancing the Italian Learners' Comprehension Competence in Turkish Proverbs and Idioms

Problem Statement: Foreign language learners who do not naturally come from the tradition of the language they are learning have naturally difficulties in comprehending Turkish proverbs and idioms. Comprehension problems of the Italian learners of Turkish can be various. Purpose of Study: This study aims at presenting some suggested teaching methods for Turkish proverbs and idioms through some semantically identical Italian proverbs and idioms in order to solve the comprehension problems of Italian learners of Turkish arised from lack of grammatical, strategic, communicative and pragmatic competence. Method: This study uses content analysis to explore whether proverbs have a significant effect on language learning. In order to do so, the author uses Turkish proverbs to find their equivalents in Italian. Findings: In light of the comparison between Turkish and Italian proverbs, one can easily see that the proverbs have a bearing effect on language learning and teaching. Conclusion and Recommendations: This study will contribute to the understanding of the importance of the use of proverbs in foreign language teaching/learning. We should give importance to idioms and proverbs in foreign language teaching, since they are important part of the culture without which learning a foreign language is not possible. However, the foreign language learners have difficulties in understanding idioms and proverbs.

Нулти члан у италијанским пословицама

Research of this work was carried out on Italian proverbs, which have all the features of the sentence, and some special features that make them different from the usual sentence in everyday communication. The bare nouns in the initial part of the proverbs occur because of the relocation of the informative focus into the initial position regardless of the function that later they carry out. Furthermore the omission of the article is due to various changes in syntactic structure, permutation or omission of sentence constituents, such as verbs and conjunctions. Realizing the most important principles of these changes led us to a better understanding of this phenomenon in Italian proverbs, but also to significant variety of their syntactic structures.

Structure syntaxique des proverbes français et italiens

This article shows an application of the lexico-grammatical model built up by Maurice Gross and his team at LADL to the study of proverbs. Our starting principle is that a rigorous methodology and a system of classification are vital elements to the description of proverbs. This research intends to provide a theoretical and applied linguistic contribution to the comparative study of French and Italian proverbs. Tools such as electronic dictionaries and libraries of finite state automata have been built up, and can be used both for theoretical analysis and in practical applications. For example in fast retrieval of proverbs from a wide corpus of textual data, translation, recording of variants, and storage of citations. The aim of this study is the comparison of certain classes of French and Italian proverbs. These classes are examined with emphasis on the correlation between them.

The Italian Proverbs of Newberry Library MS 95.1

The Italian Proverbs of Newberry Library MS 95.1

Three Works on Italian Proverbs, Sayings and Idioms

Three Works on Italian Proverbs, Sayings and Idioms

Giovanni Torriano's "Select Italian Proverbs"

Giovanni Torriano's "Select Italian Proverbs"

Merbury's Proverbi Vvlgari: A Rare 16th Century Collection of Italian Proverbs

Merbury's Proverbi Vvlgari: A Rare 16th Century Collection of Italian Proverbs

Italian Proverbs

Italian Proverbs