Perception of Women in Society Given through Proverbs and Sayings

Kuzmanovska, Dragana and Koceva, Vesna and Vitanova-Ringaceva, Ana and Kirova, Snezana and Ivanova, Biljana and Koteva, Ivana and Todorova, Marija (2022) Perception of Women in Society Given through Proverbs and Sayings. EDULEARN22 – 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. pp. 5345-5349. ISSN 2340-1117

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Abstract

According to Sapir (2014), we can see that language is a guide to social reality. Language, as a mirror of
the society, can not only reflect a nation’s culture and history, but also reflect its values and beliefs. Just
as language is a mirror of a nation's culture and history, so proverbs and sayings are the casket of gold
carefully guarded by every nation. The life of a people from the most distant past to the present is woven
into them. Expressed in a beautiful and compact form and expressed in pure folk language, they convey
experiences of a people related to various events of everyday life. They vividly, often sharply and very
wittily, characterize the bad and good qualities of individuals, groups or entire nations, while stigmatizing
evil, fighting violence and wastefulness. Proverbs and sayings are a polished diamond, a priceless stone
that never loses its value and beauty. According to an Arabic proverb, they are a beam illuminating
darkness. We will dedicate our research to these so-called beams that illuminate the way to get relevant
information about the role and place of women in society, i.e., to try to find out as much as possible about
the status of women in Macedonian, German, English, Italian, Spanish and Turkish society. We will try to
give an overview of the social role of women in society by analysing a larger corpus of proverbs and
sayings from the listed languages. Why exactly the woman? - the answer is given by the great writer Ivo
Andric, who says that “A woman stands as a gate at the exit and the entrance of this world”.
When considering the position of women in society, it is necessary to keep in mind their work and social
interaction in society, because today's women perform work responsibilities both at home and at work.
Hence, their value increases with the increasing of their obligations and duties; now a woman is a wife,
mother, housewife, farmer, teacher, principal, mayor, member of parliament, minister etc. It is the place
and role of women in society that is the interest of our research, which we believe we will most credibly
explore by analysing the proverbs and sayings that carry the traditional wealth of a people and pass it
on from generation to generation.
This scientific journey includes students from the third and fourth year at the Departments of
Macedonian, German, English, Italian, and Turkish language and literature as well as the students who
attend the elective course in Spanish language, from the Faculty of Philology at UGD-Stip. Their task is
to process 50 proverbs and sayings from the mentioned languages. With their teacher, they will try to
find appropriate equivalents in their mother tongue - Macedonian which we will then analyse in relation
to our main component “woman” in relation to the positive or negative context in which it is used. The
first part of the research will contain the results about the positive and negative feature of the female
component in proverbs and sayings in each of the above languages, and the second part will summarize
the processed results and give a common view of the state of positive and negative in proverbs and
sayings about women. We emphasize the role of women in these societies, believing that there are
more similarities than differences in terms of their positive and negative perception in society. We hope
that this modest research of ours will be of great importance for future contrast paremiological research,
which in our opinion is at an enviable level.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	proverbs and sayings, woman, comparative approach, positive and negative context
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Snezana Kirova
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2022 07:24
Last Modified:	23 Aug 2022 07:24
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/30092

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