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Cultural Linguistics as an investigative framework for paremiology: comparing time in English and Persian
Author(s) -
Dabbagh Ali
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12162
Subject(s) - ethnolinguistics , persian , linguistics , metaphor , cultural analysis , schema (genetic algorithms) , cognitive linguistics , applied linguistics , cultural diversity , sociology , psychology , social science , computer science , anthropology , philosophy , cognition , machine learning , neuroscience
This paper introduces Cultural Linguistics to the analysis of proverbs using the three analytical tools of cultural metaphor, cultural schema, and cultural category, which are collectively referred to as cultural conceptualisations . To substantiate this, the paper reports on a study in which English and Persian cross‐culturally equivalent proverbs related to the concept of time were scrutinised using this analytical framework. The results revealed a number of similar and different images of time in the proverbs investigated metaphorically and schematically but not categorically. The paper concludes that such analysis can assist paremiologists to deepen their understanding of proverbs especially in comparative paremiology from different languages with distinct cultural backgrounds.