LINGUISTIC STUDY OF APHORISMS IN ENGLISH

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  • Z.Z Bakhadirovna Автор

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18858434

Abstract

An aphorism is a short, memorable statement that expresses a general truth, principle, or observation. In English, aphorisms appear in literature (e.g., Bacon, Wilde), public speech, advertising, and now heavily in digital communication. Linguistically, aphorisms are interesting because they compress meaning: they often use gnomic (timeless) tense, generic reference, parallel syntax, and figurative semantics (paradox, irony, metaphor) to sound authoritative and “self-contained.” This article explains how aphorisms are defined, how they differ from proverbs and related “short forms,” which linguistic features make them work, and which methods are used to study them (stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and corpus approaches). 

 

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2026-03-04

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2026): International Conference on Science & Technology (ICST)

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Bakhadirovna, Z. (2026). LINGUISTIC STUDY OF APHORISMS IN ENGLISH. International Conference on Science & Technology, 2(2), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18858434