Traditional Proverbs Research Articles

Silencing the Guns: African Traditional Proverbs and Aphorisms for Peace and Security in 21st Century Africa

Africa is yet entangled with some Western modernity responsible for their political crises and incessant insecurity. Insecurity in Africa has historical roots from pre-colonial to post-colonial periods. The continent's hosting of the seventh United Nations Peace Support mission and over 60 percent of the UN Security Council's agenda addresses African insecurity underscore the urgent need to tackle these challenges. This paper examines insecurity in Africa and advocates for reviving African traditional methods to restore peace, utilizing proverbs and wisdom. Through analysis, criticism, and prescription, it explores the inherent insecurity problems and argues that African proverbs offer valuable insights for fostering unity. The study compares Western crisis resolution methods with African approaches, concluding that traditional African means are a more effective alternative. It highlights Africa as a potential solution to its own insecurity while recognizing the benefits of Western methods. The paper concluded that Africa has strong indigenous values and security systems capable of addressing insecurity even before colonialism. The paper recommended that African traditional security outfits are more efficient and better considered as alternative measures to solving the problems of peace and insecurity in Africa rather than adopting the Western war-war method.

Floral Lexicons in Javanese Proverbs: An Ecolinguistic Study

This study aimed to analyze and elaborate on the dimensions of meaning in the floral lexicons in Javanese proverbs. Employing an ecolinguistic approach, this study focused on the expressions in Javanese proverbs that entail floral lexicons. The data were collected using an uninvolved observation method, as well as documentation, observation, and interviews with relevant informants. The data were then analyzed using the referential identity method, translational identity method, and immediate constituent analysis or distributional technique. Further, data triangulation was also conducted to validate the data with the following steps: discussion, re-checking, and expert consultation. The result shows that the floral lexicons entailed in Javanese traditional proverbs take the form of words and phrases. In word or morpheme form, the lexicons are categorized as nouns and polymorphemic expressions consisting of affix, reduplicative, and compound words. The floral lexicons in Javanese proverbs, in accordance with the cultural values they embody, include depicting attitudes and worldviews; reflecting negative attitudes; being related to strong determination; portraying the relationship between humans and God; and illustrating human interactions with other humans, as well as their connection with nature. The lexicons also represent the thought process and cultural values of Javanese society.

Proverbial teachings on sustainability: critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education

ABSTRACT What ethical and political considerations does zine-making raise in teaching and learning across knowledge systems and artful expression? This question guides the critical dialogue about a research project on teaching sustainability through traditional proverbs from Malaysia and Kazakhstan within a zine-making workshop in a UK university. Merging our reflections with that of students and their zine artworks alongside traditional proverbs, we dialogue across two tensions associated with the challenges of proverbial learning as decolonial connections or appropriation, and the politics and pedagogy of zine-making. Through these tensions which reveal the messy, ambivalent, and unsettled practices within the neoliberal university, we offer some reflections for researchers and teachers engaging in decolonial and arts-based praxis.

Penyelesaian Tindak Pidana Penganiayaan Melalui Hukum Pidana Adat Di Kecamatan Koto Baru Kota Sungai Penuh Provinsi Jambi

The criminal act of persecution is a criminal act that affects a person's body, namely the act of injuring. One of the resolutions of the criminal act of persecution is through customary criminal law. This happened in Koto Baru District, Sungai Penuh City, the criminal act of persecution can be resolved through the applicable customary criminal law. The problems in this study are how the process of resolving criminal acts of persecution through customary criminal law in Koto Baru District, Sungai Penuh City, what are the obstacles in the application of customary criminal sanctions in Koto Baru District, Sungai Penuh City, how are efforts made to overcome obstacles in the application of customary criminal sanctions in Koto Baru District, Sungai Penuh City. This research uses sociological juridical methods and descriptive research. Based on the research conducted, the results of the process of solving criminal acts of persecution through customary criminal law in Koto Baru District, Sungai Penuh City, were obtained in a bajenjeng naeak batakah tuhang. Obstacles in the application of customary criminal sanctions include legal rule factors, law enforcement factors, legal culture factors, and economic factors. Efforts were made to overcome obstacles where customary administrators held seminars and customary dialogues. Traditional managers give instructions to traditional leaders in solving cases objectively and professionally. A traditional proverb asserts dimanao bumui dipijiak disitu langangk dijunjio to foster public legal awareness. If the offender cannot fulfill customary criminal sanctions on his own, he can ask his family for help

Impressive penetration of gender habitus in Ayao Woniwon, traditional proverbs of Yapen people in Serui town Papua

Impressive penetration of gender habitus in Ayao Woniwon, traditional proverbs of Yapen people in Serui town Papua

Specific features of proverbs in language teaching

The urgency of the topic proverbs teaching in language education is due to the possibility of studying proverbs as linguistic units that enlarge the students outlook and worldview. Proverbs do reflect reality and do express the activities of the inhabitants of a certain language, which has some fragments of the world, although they reproduce from generation to generation the activities and cultural and national traditions of the people, its indigenous inhabitants. The scientific value of this is determined by the need to organize proverbial words and is determined by the fact that it allows you to make statements about certain aspects of what you are actively studying! There are currently problems in the relationship between language and culture that naturally reinforce the ideas found in proverbs and their relevance in philosophy. The notorious material allows one to penetrate into the area of mental activity of a linguistically determined society and opens up wide opportunities for conducting comparative research. A study of the system of proverbs and its educational role in language teaching, allowing to observe universal and national cultures in mentalities and contribute to the theoretical problems and general practices of applied linguistics in general, to solve methodological issues for carrying out linguocultural and methodological analysis. There are many ways to inculcate national education in future generations. One way is to shape the national consciousness by teaching proverbs and sayings that have been preserved from one generation to the next and have preserved the culture, identity, and traditions of the nation. This research studies the linguistic and cultural features of English proverbs. Therefore, in order to strengthen international relations, to introduce traditional proverbs, it is necessary to qualitatively determine their linguistic and cultural features. It is important to read texts with cultural coloring, phraseological phrases, catchphrases, real words, proverbs, legends and stories that reveal the identity of the people, as well as works which have a significant place in the history of fiction in shaping a person’s national consciousness. The people's life and world view are preserved in proverbs, metaphors and symbols. They are the sources of the most valuable information about the culture and mentality of the people.

Analysis of Character Education Values in Wewarah Osing

Osing is a native tribe of Banyuwangi located in East Java Province. The Osing tribe owns a variety of unique and interesting cultures to learn about. One of the cultures from the Osing tribe is wewarah Osing. In wewarah Osing, there are many wise words with good character values which are able to strengthen the nation’s character. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the character values contained in wewarah Osing. The study method applied in this research is a qualitative method through a literature study as the data collection technique. Whereas the research data are obtained through creating a topic mapping in relation to character education and Osing culture found from Google Scholars, Crossref, ResearchGate, related books and journals, accessed from 10 March 2023 to 26 June 2023. The result of the study showed in wewarah Osing, traditional proverbs to support or used to strengthen the national character. These good characters namely discipline, social care, hard work, responsible, and religious.

Русские пословицы в современной речи: к концепции комплексной лексикографической репрезентации

The aim of the research is to substantiate the concept of dictionary representation of Russian proverbs, taking into account the dynamic processes occurring in the paremiological sphere and reflected in the transformations of linguistic units in this sphere and in neoparemiological units that arise without relying on traditional proverbs. The study utilises modern methods of linguistic analysis and lexicographic construction. The scientific novelty of the research lies in creating a model for a comprehensive dictionary description of canonical proverbs, their transformations and neoparemiological units. The innovative lexicographic concept involves combining the thematic-axiological and the alphabetical-headword principles for systematising the material. It is the first time that the potential of functionally-semantic dictionary parametrisation of individually-authored transformations of proverbs and new proverbs is realised. As a result, it has been proved that the proposed techniques of macro- and micro-structuring of a dictionary will make it possible to present the peculiarities of functioning of Russian proverbs in the modern sociocultural context, to demonstrate emerging trends in the reinterpretation of the axiological content of traditional proverbs, as well as the goals and the linguistic-creative potential of people coining new proverbs.

“In Proverbiis Non Semper Veritas”: Reflections on the Reprint of an Antisemitic Proverb Collection

Abstract: This article concerns the highly questionable 2016 reprint of Ernst Hiemer’s antisemitic proverb collection Der Jude im Sprichwort der Völker (1942, The Jew in the Proverbs of the People ). It begins with a glance at earlier antisemitic proverb collections while also reviewing some of the superb Yiddish and Jewish/Hebrew proverb collections and serious studies on this rich repertoire of proverbs. This is followed by a discussion of the misguided antisemitic publications of the nineteenth century that were precursors of even more slanderous and prejudiced collections that appeared during the time of National Socialism. It is shown that both traditional proverbs and invented pseudo-proverbs discrediting the Jewish population were used to manipulate public opinion in Nazi Germany by claiming that these proverbial stereotypes express absolute proverbial truths. A number of examples show that this campaign against the Jews is a clear indication that stereotypical proverbs can be extremely harmful and that they ultimately played a role in the Holocaust. Hiemer’s collection, published during the height of Nazi rule over Germany, is the most vicious antisemitic proverb compendium that should be a warning against such intentional misuse of stereotypical proverbs that have no truth value. Since it is available in libraries and on the Internet, it certainly should not have been reprinted for fear of fueling present-day antisemitism.

Degradation and Reorientation of the Living Guidelines of the Indigenous Dayak Peoples of West Kalimantan

Indigenous philosophy is the basis for customary law communities in building their community life. In order for the life of the community to run well, a value system is created to guide life that originates from religious, social, and cultural life in relation to the supernatural between humans and nature. The value system that guides the life of the indigenous Dayak community is experiencing a process of degradation. The basic and urgent problem lies in life teaching in the form of advice, advice which is summarized in traditional saying which is no longer an important teaching in society and in the family because of the influence of modernization and social institutions. It is necessary to reorient the system of values and institutions by teaching traditional proverbs. This study uses empirical legal research methods to collect data as material for research conducted, the results of data collection in the field show that proverbs are spoken languages that are often used by the Dayak community in various activities in the Dayak community, for example in traditional ceremonies, traditional meetings, customary dispute resolution, traditional marriages, giving advice to children and so on. The forms of proverbs used depend on the activities carried out by the community, for customary deliberation activities, customary dispute resolution, traditional marriages are in the form of sayings and sayings, while for teaching and advice to children are in the form of proverbs and parables.

TRANSFORMATIONAL FEATURES OF "CORONAVIRUS" ANTI-PROVERBS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Summary. Research purpose – to analyze the ways in which anti-proverbs in Russian were transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic; to reveal the mentality of people in Russia during the pandemic as reflected in these anti-proverbs. Research object – Russian anti-proverbs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research methodology – Word frequency statistics; comparative analysis; corpus analysis; literature analysis. Research result – 89 Russian anti-proverbs of pandemic were analyzed in terms of their ways of transformation, and it was found that 81 of them used substitution, 5 used associative extension, 2 used both ways, and 1 used homonymic mean. Word frequency statistics of thematic vocabulary were done for these anti-proverbs to obtain high frequency thematic vocabulary, and the results are as follows: вирус (23), карантин (8), маска (7), чихать (7), ковид (5), лечиться (5), вакцина / прививочный (5), заразить (4), Ухань / китаец (4), пандемия (3), инфицированный (3), антисептик (3). Conclusion. By collating and analyzing the anti-proverbs that appeared in Russian during the pandemic, it was found that the transformation of anti-proverbs during the period included substitution, extension, and a combination of various methods. Meanwhile, high-frequency words such as карантин, маска, чихать etc. in the anti-proverbs reflected to a certain extent the living conditions of Russian people during the pandemic. The anti-proverbs themselves contained a wealth of content, including people's fear and disgust of the virus, their ambivalence toward home quarantine, their negative attitude toward the vaccine at the beginning of the epidemic, as well as their misunderstanding of Wuhan, China. At the same time, they took an active role in protection, washing their hands regularly, wearing masks, and keeping social distance, and gained inspiration for healthy living from the epidemic. Value of research. Theoretically, the study of Russian anti-proverbs during the pandemic period can effectively contribute to the development of linguistics as a new change in the language; practically, we can see from these anti-proverbs some characteristics of people's mentality during that period. In addition, the humorous feature of anti-proverbs can be used in the education of Russian language to enhance students' interest in learning Russian proverbs and thus help them memorize traditional proverbs.

العلة عند المحدثين : مفهومها، و أهميتها، و أنواعها

العلة عند المحدثين : مفهومها، و أهميتها، و أنواعها
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Русские пословицы в лингвоаксиологической и лексикографической интерпретации: традиции и инновации

The aim of the research presented in this article is to develop the concept of a linguo-axiological dictionary representation of proverbs and proverbial concepts in their current state, taking into account various structural and semantic transformations and new axiological components of their meaning. The sources of the material of the study were the paroemiological collections of I. M. Snegirev, I. I. Illustrov, V. I. Dahl, and modern authors; Internet sites; and recordings of live speech of modern native speakers of the Russian language. The development of the lexicographic aspect of the topic was preceded by a comprehensive linguistic analysis of paroemias. The methods of historical-etymological, component, contextual, linguo-axiological analysis reveal their modern semantics and cultural-historical background. The mechanisms of transformations are studied by the method of structural and semantic modeling. The authors’ method of axiologically oriented lexicographic parameterization of the material, developed to solve the research problems, is based on the domestic experience of the dictionary description of paroemias and the authors’ developments in this field. The developed model of the linguo-axiological dictionary representation of paroemias is presented on the material of the proverbial concept “House”, one of the basic concepts of Russian linguaculture. The representation of the paroemiological material in the alphabetical headword dictionary implies the explication of the evaluativeness not only of the original paroemia, but also of its transformations through emotive-evaluative labels, axiologically oriented definitions, and functional-pragmatic commentaries. The transformations of the original proverb are grouped according to structural and semantic models of transformation, which allows us to systematically reflect the transformational potential of the paroemia, to show the dynamics of its formal and conceptual sides, the displacement of its axiological vector. In the thematic dictionary of a new type, the evaluative component of the proverbial concept is reflected by the headings of dictionary macro-entries that convey the general axiological meaning of the group of paroemias. The dictionary macroentries with such axiological headings are grouped within thematic sections in the order from traditional value orientations of linguaculture to new evaluative attitudes represented by new paroemias and proverbial transformations. The emotive and evaluative characteristics of the proverbial material reflecting the new axiologemes allow us to conclude that the neo-paroemias and transformations of traditional proverbs convey the jokingly ironic attitude of nominators to the denial of traditional values rather than their real denial and ridicule. The proposed concept makes a theoretical contribution to the development of problems of linguo-axiological interpretation of paroemias and will find practical implementation in the creating of modern dictionaries of proverbs. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

THE ELLIPSIS IN UZBEK FOLK PROVERBS

The presence of ellipsis in Uzbek traditional proverbs, grammatical forms, phonetic phenomena, and its relevance are all discussed in this article.

Administrative Thought in Kurdish Folk Proverbs

This research aims to understand and find the relationship between administrative thoughts and theory and Kurdish popular traditional proverbs. This is a theoretical and applied research by comparing (32) Kurdish folk or saying examples with some classic (traditional) and modern theories of managerial thought. This includes two different sciences and fields of management and folk literature. The research is divided into three similar sections according to the title of the research, and its first chapter is devoted to administrative thought, schools and administrative theories, the second chapter: is devoted to the concept, specificity and attempts to collect Kurdish proverbs, and the third chapter is devoted to presenting administrative thought in terms of the fundamentals in the folkloric folk proverb in the Kurdish language. The research reached were reflected in the thought of the Kurds' older generations such grandfathers and grandmothers even though it was not applied in reality, because the Kurds, like other people, have an administrative thought that is perfect and mature, especially in the field of specialization, time, planning, leadership and supervision. Finally the study recommended to writers and researchers, one of the most important of which is that this field should be developed and further researched between administrative thought in all its divisions and branches, with all Kurdish proverbs on the one hand, and with all other topics of Kurdish literature such as poetry, prose, novel ... etc. on the other side.

Folk Onomastics Study of Anthroponymy Found in Babad Banjoemas Wirjaatmadjan

Folk onomastics is a sub-category of socio-onomastics which deals with people’s beliefs and perceptions of names and name use. Interestingly, pragmatics also plays important role in the study of onomastics as names cannot be split up from the context where they are used. The phenomenon of anthroponymy that gradually advances relates to the development of human civilization. Personal name is very pivotal in human life due to the role of name bearers’ in history. Name is not only a name for it carries something along with it throughout the time particularly those who have power and position in history. Babad Banjoemas Wirjaatmadjan (BBW) was a chronicle of Banyumas regency from 1582 until 1932 which was written by Raden Wirjaatmadjan and continued by Raden Poerwasoepradja. As a chronicle of Banyumas regency, BBW displays historical names and aliases related to the cultural context of Banyumas. This article tries to dig out the phenomenon of anthroponymy of Banyumas’ regency leaders (bupati) in BBW as the names indicate the historical background of the bearers. Thus, the research spotlights the cultural values carried by alias or pseudonym of Banyumas leaders. Utilizing descriptive qualitative and library research, I found out that bupati’s names and aliases in BBW were classified based on five conditions: place of death, place of retirement, place of banishment, medal of appreciation, and lifelong action. The result highlights the traditional proverb that good men must die but death cannot kill their names.

A black dog enters the home: hunger and malnutrition in Malawi

Hunger and inadequate nutrition are ongoing concerns in rural Malawi and are exemplified in traditional proverbs. Traditional proverbs and common expressions offer insight into commonly held truths across societies throughout...

Брачные отношения через призму англоамериканских пословиц и антипословиц

The society tends to promptly respond to numerous social changes in the modern world. These changes are reflected in national cultures, customs, everyday and professional practices and, needless to say, in the language. Applying the continuous sampling method, the author selected gender-marked English proverbs (48) and anti-proverbs (48) containing the lexemes wife, husband, man, woman, bride, groom, and bachelor in order to discover gender role shifts in Anglo-American linguoculture. The dictionaries by A.T. Litovkina and W. Mieder (1999 and 2006) as well as The Penguin Dictionary of English Proverbs edited by R. Fergusson and J. Law (2000) were used. The descriptive and analytical method as well as definition analysis were utilized. The research revealed more negative female connotations in anti-proverbs compared with traditional proverbs. Wife proves to be the most active lexeme in the structure of proverbs and anti-proverbs, which indicates a strong social interest in the woman, her lifestyle pattern, model of behaviour, and moral values. At the same time, the image of the wife is more negative than the image of the husband, who is presented as a victim. These facts allow us to infer that both proverbs and anti-proverbs are mainly authored by men. Thus, it can be concluded that the androcentric worldview is still characteristic of the English and American societies.

Nyi Pohaci Sang Hyang Sri Value in leader perspective of Cipatat Kolot Customary Societies

This research aims to investigate Nyi Pohaci Sang Hyang Asri's value in Cipatat Kolot societies perspective. The research method uses an ethnographic qualitative approach. This method is implemented because this research is linked to the social community. To gather data was used as an in-depth interview. Sample are selected through purposive technique. The result is probed meticulously through triangulation technique and triangulation sources. The result shows Nyi Pohaci Sang Hyang Asri is a customary society's faith. However, it becomes tradition and culture because the value of Nyi Pohaci pursues until nowadays generation. It has been embedded in their perspective. They must continue this perspective because it is mandatory from their forefather. While Nyi Pohaci release in proverb as non-material culture fro pursuing behavior in daily life. The other is Nyi Pohaci through traditional proverb which proverb has numerous meaning including they believe humans are in Nyi Pohaci and Nyi Pohaci are in human bodies. All parts of the human body, starting from human bones, human intellect, human flesh, human form, the hair on human bodies, bile in human stomachs, human minds and minds are formed by eating rice as Nyi Pohaci. As a result, the human dislikes the ravage nature environment because it has been cultivated on the land's surface. As land and nature are damaged, they have devastated Sri as paddies. It indicates that a human has influenced Nyi Pohaci belief must protect the natural environment. The other is they adjust their behavior not to adopt fully an-organic agriculture. They try to use composting and fertilizer for livestock manure. As a consequence, the soil can be preserved from damaged and combat global warming like climate change.

Interpretation of the traditional proverb “jer basuki mawa beya” on abnormal audit fees in the context of improving audit quality

East Java Province is a province in Indonesia that has cultural diversity and uniqueness. This is reflected, among other things, by the number of proverbs (in Javanese: unen-unen) used by the people of East Java. One of the popular Javanese proverbs, traditional sayings that express a perceived truth based on common sense or experience, in East Java Province is ‘Jer Basuki MawaBeya’ which means that all success requires sacrifice, or in other words, if someone wants to achieve success, there must be a cost. In the context of improving audit quality, if a company decides to employ external auditor services, the company must pay fees for the external auditor services. The abnormal audit fees paid by the company will have an effect on the increase in audit quality.