FOLK THINKING AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES REFLECTED IN PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS
Abstract
This study explores proverbs through the prism of the cognitive dimensions of popular reasoning. It supports the notion that proverbs, as one of the briefest forms of oral folk creativity, serve as conceptual constructs encapsulating human life experience, cultural principles, and outlook. The research demonstrates the interrelation of proverbs with such cognitive activities as perception, remembrance, abstraction, categorization, and conceptual modeling. Proverbs are also interpreted as instruments for organizing collective knowledge, upholding ethical codes, and transmitting accumulated experience through metaphors, symbolic imagery, and prototypes.
The article identifies the fundamental cognitive functions of proverbs — epistemological, axiological, pragmatic, and interpretive. Proverbs are regarded as a form of collective consciousness preserving socio-cultural heritage and values through generations. It is further observed that although proverbs represent national thought, they retain universal and intercultural dimensions.
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