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The collection and recording of the proverbs published in this volume took place over a long period from 1952 to nearly the present (1988), alongside the collection of other folkloric material from Lefkada.
I must say that the topic did not press me much, and thus, I acted with comfort and in a planned manner, paying careful attention to highlighting exogenous, especially scholarly, elements to avoid the adulteration of local material. This is because I remember from my school days in primary school how many "educational" proverbs and "maxims" "enriched" and essentially adulterated the treasure of popular wisdom.
Equally dangerous for some adulteration were the various learned phrases, from which "wise words" were memorized, and were not forgotten, that often combined convincingly with local proverbs.
Certainly, my recording was always done directly from the mouths of Lefkadians—mostly from rural areas—and always incidentally. Wherever and whenever it happened: on the street, at home, in the café, on the bus, at the high school where I taught, anywhere I heard a proverb, I noted it down immediately and placed it in its proper context.
Because here, what happens is different from the recording of other folkloric material related to speech, such as, e.g., folk songs, folk tales, traditions, etc. You can ask someone to tell them to you if they know.
However, with proverbs, this is not the case. One must hear them in speech, to come out spontaneously and naturally, in conjunction with the reasoning of the moment, paying attention separately to the preamble that accompanies them and to the interpretation given. This particularly last point has special significance for the faithful rendering of the semantic content of proverbial speech.
Because it must be stated that the interpretation of many proverbs is difficult to provide correctly when they are separated from the natural speech of the speaker.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Pantazis Kontomichis
- Publisher
- Grigori
- Type
- Sociology, Folklore
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 307
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603332909
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