Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs

被引：1
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作者：
Dabbagh, Ali [1 ]
Babaii, Esmat [2 ]
机构：
[1] Gonbad Kavous Univ, Appl Linguist, Gonbad E Kavus, Iran
[2] Fujian Normal Univ, Coll Foreign Languages, Appl Linguist, Discourse Anal & Language Assessment, Fuzhou, Peoples R China
来源：
PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY | 2024年 / 15卷 / 06期
关键词：
paremiology; cultural linguistics; cultural conceptualizations; women representation; English/Persian; CULTURAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS; COGNITION; LANGUAGE;
D O I：
10.1075/ps.21019.dab
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
The present study aims to investigate the portrayal of women in English and Persian proverbs using the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics as an alternative to critical discourse analysis. Utilizing a corpus analysis approach for Cultural Linguistics (Jensen 2017), 124 English and 186 Persian proverbs representing the theme of 'woman' were compared and contrasted cross-culturally. Results of grounded-theory driven analysis revealed: (a) while various cultural schemata and cultural metaphors reflecting both dark and bright sides of women in proverbs were unveiled, only one cultural category in Persian proverbs with no similar instance in English proverbs was revealed; and (b) in some English and Persian proverbs, interpreting cultural schemas predicates upon eliciting and understanding the cultural metaphors hidden in the proverbs. The results are discussed with reference to the potentiality of Cultural Linguistics as an analytical framework for paremiology that can provide an in-depth interpretation of proverbs as a culturally-loaded discourse.
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页码：929 / 951
页数：23
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