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Imaginary truth value, or How Proverbial Performance unfolds
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-4-25-39
Abstract
This paper appeals to the identification problem of used in spontaneous speech utterance as proverbial. In author's opinion, it is not fixation in dictionaries that sets proverbiality of a statement but certain features and conditions (constants and conventions), that take part in creating proverbial performance.
Special attention is devoted to communication constants, credibility and truth. 'Straight' organization (parallelism, metaphoricity, rhythm, rhymesets, etc.) sets credulity of proverbs. By the way, such structuredness provides another constant truth, which is enforced and in-demand at the same time. Because of well-established opinion of proverbs (they are the voice of the people and mirror of folk wisdom), they sound persuasive and do not need evidence while used in speech. Nevertheless, contradiction both in the situation of using proverbs and in the proverbial space itself argues seeming of truth. Despite this, communication constants the author is saying about let proverbial performance happen.
Communication conventions, in their turn, appear in the speaker's possibility of using a proverb in place, that is of matching elements of textual reality with elements of situation. Such opportunity is connected with understanding semantics of proverbial utterances themselves. It is important to take into account that social factors regulate their using too.
About the Author
А. A. GavrilenkoRussian Federation
Anastasiia A. Gavrilenko, postgraduate student
bld. 7-9, Universitetskaya Emb., St. Petersburg, 199034
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For citation: Gavrilenko А.A. Imaginary truth value, or How Proverbial Performance unfolds. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(4):25-39. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-4-25-39
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