СТІЙКІСТЬ, ВАРІАТИВНІСТЬ І ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЯ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ПРИСЛІВ’ЇВ
STABILITY, VARIATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF UKRAINIAN PROVERBS

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the problem of proverb stability and modifications, and the differencebetween the terms modification and transformation. The author draws a conclusion thatstandard modifications within the national paremiological corpus can not be perceived as textual oroccasional modifications. They should be taken as systemic variations within language norms thatexist in the mind of native speakers, do not add another semantic meaning and are not recognizedby native speakers as proverb deformations. Differences between proverbs (sayings of edifyingcharacter, which contain the centuries-old experience of the people) and anti-proverbs (the authorsconsider anti-proverbs to be the semantic antithesis of proverbs) are highlighted. The authors payspecial attention to the study of the semantics of proverbs and their transformants to identify relevantsemantic and cognitive characteristics. The productive transformation of classical proverbs convincesof the heredity of folk wisdom, the change in the deep meaning, and the formal plan of the originalproverbs testifies to their adaptation to new social and historical conditions and values.

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