The Structural Nature of Bengali Proverbs/ বাংলা প্রবাদের গঠনপ্রকৃতি

Abstract

The premises of folk culture have always been wide-ranging – from past to present to future, from village to city, from uneducated to educated societies, from oral to written traditions. Discussions about its science were at first whimsical and in which the role of the collector rather than the expert was predominant; Later that discussion turned into an in-depth analysis of scholarly society. The discussion of folk culture morphology or structuralism is a product of this expanded vision. Although linguists have developed the concept of structuralism in the scope of sociolinguistics, this method has been applied and discussed in the field of folk culture by Propp, Strauss, Dundis, Maranda couple, Milner, Goodwin and Wenzel, Peter Sistel and others. One of the main forms of non-material folk culture is that proverbs, though short-lived, incorporate the essence of long-lived experiences in folk society. Since it depends on unwritten and spoken sentences, its stylistic analysis should be in the form of 'sentences'. If you don't know its exact form, judging its structure may be incomplete or wrong. Therefore, it is necessary to judge the form or structure of the proverb to understand the people's experience, integrated social-psyche awareness, utility of daily folk usage, literary beauty and sense of humor etc. Western folklorists have analyzed the structure-nature or structure of proverbs in various ways. The order and measure of people can be identified from the structure-size-type-semantic features of proverbs. As a result proverbs are not composed randomly; It is based on scientific reasoning. This will be discussed in detail in the main article.