The Structure of Maithili Proverbs: A Ka:rmik Discourse Analysis
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
In the systemic functional linguistic (SFL) tradition of discourse analysis by Berry (1981 a, b), Fawcett, Mije and Wissen (1988) and O’Donnell (1990), discourse has been studied but not proverbial discourse. In their models of discourse, how a choice is made can be motivated, but the WHY aspect of discourse has not been motivated from a causal dispositional action perspective. Such a causal motivation has been first attempted by Bhuvaneswar (1999, 2013, and 2017) and also in Bhuvaneswar, Fatima, Sarah, and Khadija (2009) in the discourse analysis of proverbial exchanges. These analyses focused only on Telugu, English, and Arabic. In the culture of the Maithili speaking community, the use of proverbs is very common in conversation and proverbs are used in a number of ways of their variety-range-depth. This paper, providing a principled account of the structure of the proverb in conversational exchanges, aims to initiate research in Maithili proverbial discourse analysis for the first time, and study how proverbs are used in Maithili conversational exchanges (casual conversation). As for data collection, 25 proverbial exchanges were recorded and transcribed, and out of them, only five representative samples were taken for analysis. As for data analysis, each exchange was analyzed using the dispositional choice of networks of Bhuvaneswar (2013) in terms of (i) the position of the proverb in the exchange, (ii) its sequential emergence in the structure of the proverbial exchange (PE),and (iii) the Proverb Meaning Triad (Literal-Prototypical-Contextual) are motivated from a dispositional causal perspective. An important finding worth-mentioning here is that Maithili proverbs have been generated-chosen-specified-directed-materialized (GCSDM) from dispositional choices made by the speakers as a result of their proverbial va:sana, knowledge, and likes and dislikes.
Authors and Affiliations
Sanjay Kumar Jha, Chilukuri Bhuvaneswar
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