EINIGE PROBLEME DER MODERNEN PARÖMIOGRAPHIE UND PARÖMIOLOGIE
SOME PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY PAREMIOGRAPHY AND PAREMIOLOGY
Author(s): Kazys GRIGASSubject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Customs / Folklore, Archiving, Preservation, Theoretical Linguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: paremiography; paremiology; Estonian paremiology; folklore; proverb; semiotics; Hungarian paremiology; Lithuanian paremiology;
Summary/Abstract: The data bank of Estonian proverbs (Eesti vanasõnad, Tartu, 1980–1986) is the most up-to-date and typologically the most consistent publication of the proverb collection of one nation. In addition to similar publications of other nations, it suggests new approaches to the research of proverbs in respect to their content, poetics and comparative possibilities. In the latter half of the twentieth century the semiotic studies, focused on the analysis of the semantic, and other structural levels of the proverbs were far more intensive and at the same time they were ignored as a subject of folklore. The disregard of proverbs as a source for the investigation of the spiritual culture both of a separate nation and of the entire humanity should be treated as one of the most serious shortcomings of modern paremiology.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 45/2000
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 365-369
- Page Count: 5
- Language: German
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