EVITAREA INCERTITUDINII REFLECTATĂ ÎN PROVERBE ROMÂNEȘTI – O ABORDARE CULTURALĂ
UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE REFLECTED IN ROMANIAN PROVERBS – A CULTURAL APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Starting from Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension model, the present article focuses on the uncertainty avoidance parameter and aims to point out how the attitude towards ambiguity and uncertainty reflects in Romanian proverbs. Proverbs, maxims, aphorisms are considered to be commonplaces/ topoi or preconstructed implicatures, ideas and arguments considered to be well-known and widely agreed upon. Preconstructed implicatures interfere with stereotypes, thus offering a valuable corpus, a discursive collection which can serve to answer questions addressed by cultural studies and related fields of research. The present article aims to point out the low tolerance of Romanian culture when confronted with uncertainty and ambiguity as it reflects in a series of dicursive and cultural patterns.

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