Examining the Representation of the Parent-Child Relationship in the English Vocabulary, by Presenting Proverbs

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Department of General Linguistics and Turkology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

2 Department History, Language, and Literature, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia

Abstract

One significant field of contemporary English linguistics that has been growing quickly in recent years is the linguistic analysis of proverbs. Proverbs are an effective tool for interpreting texts because they typically transmit the language of a centuries-old customary culture from one generation to the next, reflecting all the attitudes and life philosophy of the people who speak the language natively. This paper aims to investigate how the parent-child relationship is portrayed in English language culture. It does this by categorizing proverbs using the semantic opposition "Parents - Children" and focusing on the axiological foundation of binary perception. The Parent-Children opposition was selected for analysis because it is a crucial location in the conceptual domain of the language in question, influencing speakers' mindsets. The need to address theoretical and practical issues in researching the national and cultural specificity of proverbs is a prerequisite for the relevance of scientific research in this area. We have defined the distinctive aspects of the chosen proverbs and determined their semantic and linguocultural characteristics as a consequence of the research. The attitudes of English culture are identified through the analysis of proverbs. Our analysis's findings show that there are many proverbs in the English language that describe the family way of life, which is the archetypal way that parents and children interact. We employed the comparative method, component analysis method, continuous sampling method, and classification method in the study. More than 200 English proverbs from the collection served as the basis for our analysis. Paremies based on binary oppositions were chosen from the collection through continuous sampling.

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 272-276

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