Open AccessYouth Education with Proverbs: A Case Study of Polish Proverbs about Work
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
multicolors
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2663-3353
DOI - 10.33496/005
Subject(s) - narrative , metaphor , metonymy , sociology , scripting language , value (mathematics) , perception , metaphor and metonymy , work (physics) , power (physics) , epistemology , psychology , linguistics , pedagogy , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , engineering , operating system
This paper focuses on the place of metaphorical narratives in education and in young people’sperceptions of work. Paremiology—the study of proverbs—explores cultural stipulates asscripts imprinted in proverbs, based on metaphor and metonymy, stored in collective wisdom.The article aims to present typical features of proverbs, indicating their potential in teaching:for example, helping in value clarification and career planning based on metaphoricalnarratives found in youth discourse.The paper discusses theoretical and methodological issues and the potential ofapplying them in education. First, the basic theoretical assumptions referring to language andculture are introduced, alongside the phenomenon of reasoning through proverbs. Then,proverbs are described, and their use in cross-cultural linguistic research is justified.The new concept of the paremioscript is introduced to demonstrate the power ofproverbs in youth culture, and a few case studies are presented as metaphorical carriers of folkwisdom in the collective memory. The paper concerns the mechanism of valuing andembodiment in proverbs and finally discusses the advantages and limitations necessary to beconsidered in applying paremiology in education.