Sprichwortrelationen und Sprichwortfamilien

Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt; Zoltán Gotthardt

doi:10.54103/milanoup.233

Sprichwortrelationen und Sprichwortfamilien

Authors

Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt

Geschäftsstelle fide

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9983-5184 (unauthenticated)

Zoltán Gotthardt

Indipendent Researcher

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-4051 (unauthenticated)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.233.c773

Synopsis

An essential step in the process of collecting and documenting proverbs is their annotation. During the annotation process, proverbs are provided with supplementary information relating to their specific characteristics, such as their language, the keywords they contain, and the syntactic structure on which they are based. In this manner, the individual items are placed in relation to each other.

However, certain intra- and interlingual relations are not based on such explicit features; first, they must be identified and clearly defined. These include the following relations:

proverb lemma and its orthographic, grammatical, lexical, regional, dialectal, and other variants,
traditional proverb and its (innovative) modifications, and
total and partial interlingual equivalents.

The present study is dedicated to a comprehensive analysis of how these relations are defined in theoretical works and handled in both printed and digital proverb dictionaries. It also illustrates how such relations can be established and presented in a multilingual proverb database. To achieve this, so-called proverb families are built that contain items considered related in specific aspects. Selected examples are used to demonstrate the multidimensionality of these relationships.

Author Biographies

Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Geschäftsstelle fide

holds a degree in German Studies at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria). She completed her doctorate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Pécs (Hungary) with a dissertation on computer-assisted paremiography. Her research interests include paremiology and paremiography, standardized foreign and second language assessment, and verbal and visual humor. She is the co-editor of the volume Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies, as well as of the academic journal Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship and its Online Supplement Series. She currently heads the “Quality assurance and test development of fide tests” unit at the Secretariat fide in Bern, Switzerland.

Zoltán Gotthardt, Indipendent Researcher

is a Lead Software Developer based in Switzerland and also works as an independent researcher. His research interests include data compression as well as paremiology and paremiography. He is co-author of several publications in proverb research, including “Който търси, намира” – Searching for Bulgarian Proverbs on the Web (2011), Sprichwörter im Bulgarischen nationalen Korpus (2012), Gibt es tatsächlich antonyme Sprichwörter? (2017), Mehrsprachige Sprichwortdatenbank als unterstützendes Tool für die parömiologische Forschung (2020), and Im Schnittfeld von digitaler Lexikographie und modernem Sprichwortgebrauch: Mehrsprachige internetbasierte Sprichwortdatenbank (2023).