Proverbial markers and their significance for linguistic proverb definitions: an experimental investigation

IF 0.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Yearbook of Phraseology Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1515/phras-2022-0007

Carla Spellerberg

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract Proverbs are notoriously hard to define, and various approaches to this problem are currently in use in the field of paremiology. The discussion in this paper develops a marker-based proverb definition based on linguistic criteria which is suitable for proverb research in linguistic paremiology. The basis of this definition is empirically supported by the results of an experiment with invented German proverbs containing different types of proverbial markers built on the design described in Arora (1984). The results of the experiment show the importance of proverbial markers for the successful identification of proverbs in discourse, thus allowing the establishment of a first hierarchy of proverbial markers. On a methodological level, the experimental design introduced provides insights into proverb structure and the nature of proverbiality. Furthermore, the results underline the fact that proverbial markers are not optional, but should be an essential aspect of every linguistic proverb definition.

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谚语标记及其在语言谚语定义中的意义：一项实验研究

摘要谚语是出了名的难以定义，目前在仿生学领域使用了各种方法来解决这个问题。本文基于语言学标准，提出了一个基于标记的谚语定义，适用于语言学对等论中的谚语研究。这一定义的基础在经验上得到了对发明的德国谚语的实验结果的支持，该谚语包含基于Arora（1984）中描述的设计的不同类型的谚语标记。实验结果表明，谚语标记对于成功识别话语中的谚语具有重要意义，从而建立了谚语标记的第一层次。在方法论层面上，引入的实验设计提供了对谚语结构和谚语性本质的见解。此外，研究结果强调了一个事实，即谚语标记不是可选的，而是每个语言谚语定义的一个重要方面。

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Yearbook of Phraseology LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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0.80

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： The Yearbook of Phraseology is a fully international, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to research in phraseology, a linguistic subfield concerned with the study of word combinations of varying extent and type, and different degrees of fixedness. Word combinations are ubiquitous in language and constitute a significant resource for communication. Their study is of interest to many other subdisciplines of linguistics and even to other disciplines, throwing light on the make-up of constructions, their processing and learning, the make-up and modes of creation of complex building blocks of language, the methodology and use of corpora and statistical methods, as well as on the way in which language functions.