Glimpses on Proverbs About Women in English And Albanian Language

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 13 - 32, 01.11.2017

Fatma Shıjaku

Abstract

In
this study, we are going to explore the proverbs about women in English and
Albanian language as depicted from English and Albanian written sources, mostly
dictionaries with the aim of portraying the nature of women in their many
aspects and roles assumed in the society such as appearance, virtuousness,
diligence, verbal talent, intelligence, power and their roles as daughters,
wives and mothers. The discussion draws on similarities and differences between
Anglo-American proverbs and Albanian proverbs about women by investigating the
proverbs’ content, figurativeness and cultural features.  The proverbs corpus designed here stems from
the proverbs found in “Oxford Dictionary of proverbs” (2015), “American
proverbs about women” (Lois Kerschen, 1998), and the dictionary “Fjalë të urta
të popullit shqiptar” (“Wise sayings of Albanian people” as translated in
English), (Folklor shqiptar, “Fjalë të urta të popullit shqiptar”, sektori i
prozës dhe i poezisë popullore, Jorgo Panajoti and Agron Xhagolli, 1983).

Keywords

Contrastive paremiology, woman, English proverbs, Albanian proverbs

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