A lexicographical description of Tuvan proverbs: Principles, structure and an ethnolinguoculturological commentary as compared to European paremies
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.4.11Keywords:
lexicography; paremiology; proverb; structural semantic model; multilingual dictionary; Tuvan language; Tuvan folklore; modern European languageAbstract
Due to the absence of a typological description of Tuvan proverbs, the Tuvan proverb corpus seems to appear in an artificial isolation. On the contrary, it must be seen for what it is – an organic part of the Eurasian paremiological continuum. This part has both proverbs it shares with other languages and unique ones which mark the ethnocultural distinctiveness of the Tuvan people. It is thus of utter importance (and ultimate difficulty) that a lexicographical description of Tuvan proverbs must be built with paremiology of European language as its background.
The aim of this study is to lay a methodological foundation for a description of Tuvan proverb corpus compared against European proverbs – a foundation which should cover its principles, structure and ethnolinguocultural commentary.
Looking for factual material, we turn to editions of collections of Tuvan proverbs and sayings, to dictionaries, including the most authoritative paremiological dictionaries of modern European languages, such as the ones edited by E. Strauss, G. Paczolay, K. Grigas, V.M. Mokienko, or M. Yu. Kotova.
The description, as well as its principles, is based on the theory of structural semantic modeling, which, in its turn, suggests that each unit of the corpus of Tuvan proverbs should be subjected to a differentianting use of the generality/specificity criterion. Compared against European counterparts, each Tuvan proverb can be seen as fully vs. partly analogous and absolutely vs. correlatively unique (in accordance with the structural semiotic model), the partly analogous further subdivided into ethnolinguistically vs. ethnoculturally assimilated, and the correlatively unique into ethnolinguistically vs. ethnoculturally marked (by key ideas and/or proverbial imagery).
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Bredis M. A., Ivanov Eu. Eu., Lomakina O. V., Nelyubova N. Yu. and Kuzhuget Sh. Yu. Leksikograficheskoe opisanie tuvinskikh poslovits: printsipy, struktura, etnolingvokul’turologicheskii kommentarii (na evropeiskom paremiologicheskom fone) [A lexicographical description of Tuvan proverbs: Principles, structure and an ethnolinguoculturological commentary as compared to European paremies]. New Research of Tuva, 2021, no. 4, pp. 143-160. (In Russ.). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2021.4.11
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Mikhail A. Bredis, RUDN University
Candidate of Philology, Leading Research Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University.
Postal address: 6 Miklouho-Maclay St., 117198 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (910) 462-95-62.
Email: bredis-ma@rudn.ru
Eugene Eu. Ivanov, A.A. Kuleshov Mogilev State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Language, A.A. Kuleshov Mogilev State University.
Postal address 1 Kosmonavtov St., 212022 Mogilev, Republic of Belarus.
Tel.: +375 (29) 691-50-01.
Email: ivanov_ee@msu.by
Olga V. Lomakina, Moscow Pedagogical State University; RUDN University
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Russian, Institute of Philology, Moscow Pedagogical State University; Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University.
Postal address: 1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., 119991 Moscow; 6 Miklouho-Maclay St., 117198 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (967) 118-71-45.
Email: rusoturisto07@mail.ru; lomakina-ov@rudn.ru
Natalia Yu. Nelyubova, RUDN University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University.
Postal address: 6 Miklouho-Maclay St., 117198 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (926) 532-15-77.
Email: nat.nelubova@mail.ru
Shenne Yu. Kuzhuget, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Head, Department of Pedagogics and Methodology of Pre-School and Primary Education; Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory of Ethnology and Linguoculturology, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 36 Lenin St., 667000 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
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Email: kuzhuget-sh@mail.ru
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