Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective
The present paper, adopting some of the tools offered by Cognitive Linguistics, namely the mechanisms of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, is a qualitative study of a sociolinguistic nature. Its overall purpose is an attempt at exhibiting a paradigm shift in the representation of women in Anglo-Amer...
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| description | The present paper, adopting some of the tools offered by Cognitive Linguistics, namely the mechanisms of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, is a qualitative study of a sociolinguistic nature. Its overall purpose is an attempt at exhibiting a paradigm shift in the representation of women in Anglo-American proverbs. Combining the potential of the cross-fertilisation between Cognitive Linguistics and paremiological studies, the study appertains to the sense-threads embedded in the figurative language of proverbs, with the main focus on a cognitive semantic analysis of selected Anglo-American paremias directed towards women and animals. The main goal of the research is the juxtaposition of the meaning coded in two proverbs of traditional status, as representatives of a larger group of paremiological units (i.e. A woman, a cat, and a chimney should never leave the house; A whistling girl and a crowing hen always come to no good end), reflecting the deep-rooted gender-biased ideology in patriarchal Anglo-American society, with the content of the selected anti-proverb (i.e. The early bird gets up to serve his wife breakfast in bed) and a contemporary proverb (i.e. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle), serving as sample evidence of the heralds of a paradigm shift in the issue of gender stereotyping stored in paremiological wisdom. The paper shows that the motivation behind the use of the analysed proverbs is to be accounted for by reference to the mechanism of metaphor-metonymy interaction, while the rise of new gender-related proverbs can be regarded as a sign of socio-cultural changes. Specifically, through the medium of modern paremiology, asymmetrical representation of male and female gender, coupled with traditional masculine and feminine characteristics as well as social roles, appears if not endangered then, at least, to be taking a promising path. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-026d1ed19cdc4f2a955be0ea7f1eca442024-03-18T10:29:37ZengSciendoStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric2199-60592023-12-01681417710.2478/slgr-2023-0003Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics PerspectiveKochman-Haładyj Bożena0Kiełtyka Robert11Institute of Modern Languages, University of Rzeszów2Institute of Modern Languages, University of RzeszówThe present paper, adopting some of the tools offered by Cognitive Linguistics, namely the mechanisms of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, is a qualitative study of a sociolinguistic nature. Its overall purpose is an attempt at exhibiting a paradigm shift in the representation of women in Anglo-American proverbs. Combining the potential of the cross-fertilisation between Cognitive Linguistics and paremiological studies, the study appertains to the sense-threads embedded in the figurative language of proverbs, with the main focus on a cognitive semantic analysis of selected Anglo-American paremias directed towards women and animals. The main goal of the research is the juxtaposition of the meaning coded in two proverbs of traditional status, as representatives of a larger group of paremiological units (i.e. A woman, a cat, and a chimney should never leave the house; A whistling girl and a crowing hen always come to no good end), reflecting the deep-rooted gender-biased ideology in patriarchal Anglo-American society, with the content of the selected anti-proverb (i.e. The early bird gets up to serve his wife breakfast in bed) and a contemporary proverb (i.e. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle), serving as sample evidence of the heralds of a paradigm shift in the issue of gender stereotyping stored in paremiological wisdom. The paper shows that the motivation behind the use of the analysed proverbs is to be accounted for by reference to the mechanism of metaphor-metonymy interaction, while the rise of new gender-related proverbs can be regarded as a sign of socio-cultural changes. Specifically, through the medium of modern paremiology, asymmetrical representation of male and female gender, coupled with traditional masculine and feminine characteristics as well as social roles, appears if not endangered then, at least, to be taking a promising path.https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2023-0003women-related proverbsmetaphormetonymymetaphtonymyparadigm shift |
| spellingShingle | Kochman-Haładyj Bożena Kiełtyka Robert Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric women-related proverbs metaphor metonymy metaphtonymy paradigm shift |
| title | Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective |
| title_full | Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective |
| title_short | Paradigm Shift in the Representation of Women in Anglo-American Paremiology – A Cognitive Semantics Perspective |
| title_sort | paradigm shift in the representation of women in anglo american paremiology a cognitive semantics perspective |
| topic | women-related proverbs metaphor metonymy metaphtonymy paradigm shift |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2023-0003 |
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