ანდაზისა და სიტყვის მასალის კონტექსტური კვლევის ზოგიერთი საკითხი (ზეპირი ისტორიების მიხედვით)
Some Issues of Contextual Research of Proverbs and Traditional Sayings (According to the Oral Histories)

Summary/Abstract: In oral histories important place is occupied by folklore genres such as legends, oral traditions, proverbs, aphorisms, traditional sayings, anecdotes, explanations, charms and so on-that are very popular among contemporary population who reveal great interest to them up today. During the research of the proverbs and traditional sayings we confront with certain problems as their allegorical meaning is not connected to a certain fact, accordingly for making sense of them it is necessary to investigate them in the context. Such opportunity was given in the oral histories. The topic of investigation of proverbs and traditional sayings became our aim during fieldwork when we discovered that population used it wide scale, especially aged people. Later when we started the study of the theoretical material on this topic we discovered that the problem was brought forward still in 1957 by folklorist Pikria Zandukeli. She marked that during fieldwork in Upper Imereti she could not find a narrator who managed to make a list of proverbs alike samples of other genres, though she had a chance to collect them when the narrator used them during narration for strengthening the facts throughout story telling. Hence it is clear that people used proverbs and traditional sayings for confirming and turning stronger their opinion in the context (Zandukeli 1964: 148-149). If we look through the history of inestigation of proverbs we can discover diversity of researches. In 1953 prof. M. Chikovani in old Georgian literature discovered that the word “Proverb” was used in the meaning of “a short story” too. Parnaoz Ertelishvili took attention to the figurative meaning of proverbs (1957). On the problem of proverb a broad investigation was made by prof. Ksenia sikharulidze (1960 ).

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