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A Content-Based Analysis of Humanity in Azerbaijani Proverbs

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• Volume 2,Issue 5, Sept. 2015

Year:

2015

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Azerbaijani Proverbs, Azerbaijani Mythology, Azerbaijani Culture, Islamic Ideology, Content-Based Analysis

Authors:

• Shahiditabar, Mostafa
• Setayesh, Kambiz

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

2

Number:

5

Pages:

425-427

Month:

September

BibTex:

@article{416, author = "Mostafa Shahiditabar and Kambiz Setayesh", abstract = "This study aims to explore Azerbaijani proverbs to find out the themes related to humanity. The corpus used in the current study contains three books on Azerbaijani proverbs that consist of 10425 proverbs. A content-based approach is used to analyze the corpus. The results show that the main humanity-related vocabulary theme is insan (i.e., frequency: 130 times). The findings of current study shows that some tinges of Islamic ideology one the one hand and cultural values as well as mythological beliefs on the other hand are seen in Azerbaijani proverbs. About Islamic ideology, some ideas are reported that share a common belief between Azerbaijanis and Islamic lifestyle. Regarding mythology, more works are recommended to be done to explore and report more evidences about the mythological roots of Azerbaijani proverbs. ", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Azerbaijani Proverbs, Azerbaijani Mythology, Azerbaijani Culture, Islamic Ideology, Content-Based Analysis", month = "September", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "5", pages = "425-427", title = "{A} {C}ontent-{B}ased {A}nalysis of {H}umanity in {A}zerbaijani {P}roverbs", volume = "2", year = "2015", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

This study aims to explore Azerbaijani proverbs to find out the themes related to humanity. The corpus used in the current study contains three books on Azerbaijani proverbs that consist of 10425 proverbs. A content-based approach is used to analyze the corpus. The results show that the main humanity-related vocabulary theme is insan (i.e., frequency: 130 times). The findings of current study shows that some tinges of Islamic ideology one the one hand and cultural values as well as mythological beliefs on the other hand are seen in Azerbaijani proverbs. About Islamic ideology, some ideas are reported that share a common belief between Azerbaijanis and Islamic lifestyle. Regarding mythology, more works are recommended to be done to explore and report more evidences about the mythological roots of Azerbaijani proverbs.

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