Proverbs
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The Language identity in Kurdish proverbs
Pareshan Khalid Sabir, Sirwan Jabbar Amin
Despite the fact that language is an integral part of the personal and social identities of any nation, it contains other dimensions of national identity such as culture, religion, history and politics. It is a known fact that language is a national wealth because language is a source of memory, tradition, thought, feelings and passions of people. It is a historical archive of words, phrases, terms and expressions. In other words, it is the history of those ideas, events and feelings that have become words, sentences and terms that are preserved in language. Every expression in language signifies an idea outside of itself. Therefore, it is safe to say that language of any nation represents its true identity alive. This research has been conducted under the title “language Identity in Kurdish Proverbs”. Many language characteristics can be shown through research on the content of Kurdish proverbs. To do so, those proverbs have been selected that directly or indirectly represent language. In doing so, one can be familiarised with the Kurdish view of language in terms of its use, guidance and education. This research is an attempt to gather information about the Kurds by the Kurds themselves rather than external researchers. For that purpose, descriptive and analytics methods are employed to interpret the content of the proverbs that contain language identity. The incentive of the research is to uncover the verbal role of these proverbs in tracing the Kurdish language identity and in showing their Kurdish perspective on the concept of language.
Volume 11 · Issue 1 · February 2024Educational and schooling thought in Piramerd's Poetic Proverbs
Hamanwri Omer Kaki, Sdiq Aurahman Ali
Proverbs are product of each society's thoughts and views on phenomena and events and their worldview for the future, which have appeared as a result of the experiences of enlightened people and the whole of society has participated in expressing and formulating them. Among them, the poetic proverbs which are the work of experienced and wise persons that generated them, and afterwards became the property of society which have an important value for any subject and purpose, that we want to know the people's opinion about. In the view of importance of poetic proverbs and their impact on education, this study investigates Piramerd's Poetic Proverbs entitled (Educational and schooling thought in Piramerd's Poetic Proverbs). Piramerd looks for importance of education in the view of Kurdish society in that era and importance of education in Kurdish proverb in particular, what was the status of education at that time? What was the desired trend of education? The study consists of two sections: the first section includes the concept of proverb, poetic proverb, and the importance of education and the role of educational proverbs. In the second section, on the basis of warning, avoidance, instructions, guidelines, objectives of the poetic proverbs and their contents are explained and shedding light on their aims; thereafter, the perspectives and worldviews are identified. Finally, the results are showed.
Volume 11 · Issue 3 · June 2024The Reflection of Culture in the poems of (Qani and Piramerd)
Qasim Mohammed Aziz Qadir, Fuad Rashid Mohammed
This research delves into the profound impact that Qani and Piramerd poems have had on culture. The study explores how these works of poetry have shaped cultural expression and left an indelible imprint on society. Through a careful analysis of these poets' works, this research uncovers the rich influence that their poems have had on society over the years. The works of these poets have been highly regarded, preserved as a national heritage, and passed down from generation to generation. Moreover, the study reveals that the language and proverbs used in these poems have become part of the cultural fabric and continue to provide guidance and wisdom to present-day society. Overall, this research underscores the importance of understanding the role of poetry in shaping culture and addressing cultural issues. By exploring the influence of Qani and Piramerd poems on culture, we can gain valuable insights into the cultural dynamics and issues that have impacted society for generations.
Volume 10 · Issue 3 · September 2023A Pragmatic Study of Overstatement in Kurdish Proverbs
Bekhal Latif Muhedeen, Shayma Mahmud Ahmed
Language has been a communication tool from early human history up to date. It is by using this significant tool that events and traditions have remained from the forefathers of every nation. An instance of the remained treasures of history is the items of folklore, in essence, proverbs, which is the subject of the current study. Admittedly, proverbs of any language comprise numerous figures of speech. This paper entitled “A Pragmatic Study of Overstatement in Kurdish Proverbs” is an extract from an MA thesis which pragmatically investigates the trope of overstatement in Kurdish proverbs. Introducing the two items related to the topic, namely, the proverb is an item of folklore inherited by the generations of every nation from their ancestors, which mostly gives a lesson. The trope, which in the current study is to be investigated inside the Kurdish proverbs, overstatement, is said to be, as the word itself suggests, an overly stated statement. Usually what is explained is given coloring and excessive importance or it is embellished more than its normal being. The study aims to investigate the aforementioned trope in some selected proverbs of the Kurdish language from a pragmatic perspective. This is to be conducted by adopting the eclectic model of Braim (2014). In light of the results, the trope was found to be present in seven proverbs from the data provided. The trope's most recurrent pragmatic forms and functions are seen to be adverbs and emphasis. Pragmatically, it is affirmed that overstatement has implicature in every analyzed instance during the analysis of the current study.
Volume 9 · Issue 2 · March 2022The Translation Between Competence and Performance
Hanan Salih Rashid, Omar Mahmood Kareem
This study is an attempt to clarify translation between mother tongue and foreign languages; it means the translations between two different languages. The contents consist of (introduction, idiomatic translation, proverbial translation, literary translation, and the terms that untranslatable). In literary translation we choose the poetry for two reason, firstly its main topic of literary translation, secondly its difficult topic translation. This study tries to show the difficulties and obstacles of each of these subjects, because each of them has a set of cultural and social characteristics, and they have a direct and complete relationship with human emotions and feelings. We mean choosing this title is human genitals will be a competence and any languages other than this language will be a performance for it, and also competence and performance will form an important part of all the languages of the world, because the competence is the basis of the creation of language, and performance is the expression of the language, and this caused choosing the subject and mixing with translation.