Original scientific paper

Proverbs of the Island of Vis Paremiological and stylistic interpretations, corpus and lexis

Joško Božanić ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu

Abstract

The author has chosen proverbs from his collection of paremiologisms from the island of Vis, which he had collected for his research of the island’s oral tradition, as the most summarized linguistic form used by the organic human community of Vis for preservation and oral transfer of folk philosophy on life, human relationships, natural phenomena, rhythm of meteorological weather, gender relations, experience of fisherman and farmer labour, sense of human existence and opinion of a man towards transcendental experience among different generations. Such proverbial expressions are very expressive due to brevity of expression and the necessity of their
creators to make the saying easy to remember, to enter the collective memory permanently
as a warning, or as a memento of acquired experience authenticated in life practice and a universally applicable truth. This thought that can reach a philosophic lucidity of knowledge on life phenomena seen in a process, within changeability of environment and relations within the man himself, as well as his social and natural environment. Also, these people proverbs reveal in their shortest form a life wisdom
of non-schooled folk, its connection to the experience of past generations, its trust
in the continuity and sense of intergenerational connections and sense of preserving
inherited knowledge as a value necessary for survival. These proverbs reveal a
refined sense for linguistic creativity in micro stylistic formations of proverbial expression
which represented a challenge for the stylistic interpretation of the author.

Keywords

proverb; dialect; philosophy; island of Vis; oral tradition; stylistics

Hrčak ID:

212754

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/212754

Publication date:

17.12.2018.

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