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Cultural Implications in Bhojpuri Folk Proverbs
with Reference to Kashika

Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET., Ph.D., D.Litt.

Abstract

Folk proverbs and sayings mirror the culture and language of the people, it is an important part of the culture of human language. In fact, the main purpose of this research article is elucidations of Bhojpuri folk proverbs, which embody various facets of life, social experience, attitudes and tastes, mental and ethical and aesthetic beliefs and principles. Proverbs in different languages due to different historical conditions express similar thoughts in different ways, thus reflecting the different social structures and lifestyles of the peoples. Moreover, this article deals with the analysis of systematic and methodological value of using proverbs in Bhojpuri.

A proverb is observed as the product of people’s cultural and social experience and it is fixed in the language as a stable unit, in which immediate constituents maintain its lexical-semantic meaning, but as a unity it has a secondary nomination. Proverbs reflect people’s specificity of outlook and attitude.

Keywords: Bhojpuri, proverbs, cultural implications, Kashika – Varanasi region.

1. Introduction

Proverbs are not only the manifestation of people’s nature, wisdom, understanding and thinking but also reveal various aspects of social experience, attitude and taste, mental, ethical, and aesthetic values and the most importantly cultural values of the place. It also reflects the mindset of the people, lifestyles, belief and superstitions. Basically, the study of proverbs is called paremiology (from Greek pa???µ?a - paroimía, "proverb") and can be dated back as far as Aristotle (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Many attempts at definition have been made from Aristotle to the present time, ranging from philosophical considerations to cut-and-dried lexicographical definitions" (Meider, 2004, p. 1).

Meider (1985: 119) has defined the proverb as "a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorisable form and which is handed down from generation to generation". An Iranian scholar H. Mollanazar (2001: 53) has conveyed his own notion about the proverb as "a unit of meaning in a specific context through which the speaker and hearer arrive at the same meaning." Linguist N.R. Norrick (1985, p.78) has proposed the following definition for the proverb: “The proverb is a traditional, conversational, didactic genre with general meaning, a potential free conversational turn, preferably with figurative meaning."

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Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET, Ph.D., D.Litt.
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