The sociocultural function of proverbs, their structure, and their metaphorical nature. Case Study: Proverbs with a noun clause serving as the subject of a relative clause.

Abstract

Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze ten sayings whose sentence syntactic structure contains a substantive subordinate clause of a relative subject. The purpose of the analysis is to determine the sociocultural function of these sayings, as well as to determine what type of structure they have (members that comprise it and syntactic structure, as well as to determine the way in which the elements are presented that will allow to draw an analogy with a social context and generate the metaphor according to the theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (2009). The categories to analyze each saying are: Model, saying to analyze, subject and predicate or sentences 1 and 2 for which they have a structure by sentence composition with conjunctions, structure (if it is bimembre or not), rhyme, metaphorical analogy, sociocultural function, type of experiences and conclusion.