TITLE:
The Role of Bulgarian Proverbs in the Modern Family
AUTHORS:
Manol Manolov, Ivan Stoyanov, Zlatinka Georgieva
KEYWORDS:
Psycholinguistics, Social Inheritance, Socialization, Proverbs, Family Relationships, Social Norms
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.12,
December
26,
2019
ABSTRACT: The
study is funded under Contract No КП-06-M25/4 of 12.17.2018 concluded with the
Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria. Why do
we use proverbs and what do we express with them? From the perspective of
social psychology, and psycholinguistics, in particular, we use them to shape our
language as a basic socialiser, as well
as a form through which the past is represented in the present, while the
dynamics and changes shape the future. There is currently a wide range of
linguistic constructs, which represent the social heritage in the context of
education and attitudes transmitted from generation to generation with an aim
to successfully cope with reality, to formulate the notion of living and the
living itself in terms of behaviours. This report covers several areas: Social inheritance as a form of
social interaction, and particularly its element of realizing the education
process through proverbs; the family as a separate institution and the messages
(proverbs) on family relationships passed through the generations, describing
the family and its members as a function of social relations; from the
perspective of the modern expectations and
irrespective of which proverbs are used, the impact of proverbs on the
relationships within the family is traced as a result of already
established social expectations, norms, rules and attitudes accumulated for
centuries and related to the right of the individual to express opinion in
social life and the right to determine one’s own destiny, which is often
considered to be preordained; an attempt is made to represent through Bulgarian
proverbs the way an individual from a functioning family interprets social
reality according to their “pre-programmed” personal norms, conscience and morals.