Professional paper

PROVERBS OF GRAČIŠĆE

Alvijana Klarić ; Buzet

Abstract

This paper presents four hundred folk proverbs of the Istrian area of Grašišće. The meaning of each proverb is interpreted, and in order to avoid misunderstanding, each proverb is accentuated and accompanied by its standard language equivalent. In the process of classification we have opted for the concept of classification according to the semantic (meaning-based) field, defined by Josip Kekez in his book Poslovice, zagonetke i govornički oblici / Proverbs, Riddles and Rhetorical Forms (1996) because it seemed the most adequate for this analysis. Proverbs were recorded in three locations of the Gračišće municipality; the village of Milotski Brijeg, the village of Mrkoči and the very town of Gračišće. Our informants were elderly persons who remembered these proverbs from their ancestors. Some of the elderly wrote down these proverbs a while ago, and they agreed to share these during our field research. Although they were also familiar with other proverbs, which they had heard or read about, this paper is based only on selected proverbs used in their hometown.

Keywords

Istrian folk proverbs; Istra; Gračišće; Gračaština; Chakavian dialects

Hrčak ID:

192114

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/192114

Publication date:

27.12.2017.

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