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Title Proverbs and Cultural Linguistics: A Stylistic Analysis of Balti and English

Author(s) Iqbal Hussain

Abstract This study investigates the similarities and differences between Balti and English proverbs and impact of culture on proverbs of these languages. It also conducts Stylistic analysis of proverbs to explore Parallelism as a Stylistic aspect of these proverbs. For this purpose Theory of Cultural Linguistics by Farzad Sharifian (2017) and Palmer (1996) have been used to investigate the cultural significance of proverbs. Qualitative and textual analysis methods are employed on 50 randomly collected proverbs from both English and Balti languages. The Balti proverbs are collected from Ghulam Hassan Hasni’s book Tam Lo (2004) while the English proverbs are collected from two online sources namely The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Jennifer Speake & John Simpson and A Handbook of Proverbs by Henry G. Bohn. The results show that proverbs of both languages use cultural conceptualizations and cultural objects to produce proverbs and they are significantly affected by the native cultures. The English and Balti proverbs are similar with respect to Stylistics and Semantics. The collected proverbs in both languages have common themes. Moreover, parallelism has been explored in proverbs of both languages as a Stylistic device which enhances rhythm and beauty of proverbs. This research contributes to the field of Linguistics, Stylistics, Anthropology and Paremiology. Future researchers can carry out researches using other perspectives and other regional languages.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2024-05-14

Subject Linguistics

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