PAREMIOLOGY AS THE SCIENCE OF PROVERBIAL KNOWLEDGE

Аннотация

Paremiology, as an interdisciplinary domain situated at the intersection of linguistics, folklore, and cultural studies, investigates proverbs as condensed epistemological units that encode collective human experience. This article advances a theoretically grounded and empirically informed analysis of proverbial knowledge, emphasizing its semantic density, pragmatic functionality, and cultural embeddedness. Drawing upon a qualitative comparative framework, the study examines English and Uzbek proverbs to elucidate both universal cognitive patterns and culturally contingent value systems. The findings demonstrate that proverbs function not merely as linguistic artifacts but as dynamic instruments of cultural transmission, social regulation, and cognitive schematization.