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https://doi.org/10.15176/vol60no209

Teach Young Birds to Sing Like the Old Bird: The Symbolic Meaning of Birds in Slovenian Short Folklore Forms

Saša Babič orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-757X ; Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Ljubljana


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Abstract

Birds are present in everyday life, in forests, parks, cities, in fields and on playgrounds, by rivers and at entrances to stores, etc. Their ubiquity in human everyday life all through history leads to “birds” developing metaphorical meanings and producing powerful stereotypical images, which also motivate wider conceptual meanings. This article focuses on the lexeme ptica “bird” in Slovenian short folklore forms, its stereotypical representation and its metaphorical meanings. The ethnolinguistic approach will provide insight into the characteristics ascribed to birds as well as personifications and metaphorical transfers in short folklore forms, i.e., it will show what the bird symbolizes.

Keywords

proverb, riddle, ethnolinguistics, folkloristics, animal, bird

Hrčak ID:

311677

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/311677

Publication date:

19.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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