الإعاقة البصرية في الأمثال الشعبية : دراسة تطبيقية بالمعجم التيموري و المجتمع الأسيوطي

Abstract EN

Throughout history, societies have always had various visions towards the visually impaired.

These attitudes range from reverence to contempt, seeking blessedness to aversion, and incorporation to isolation.

A variety of labels with different connotations, either synonymous or antonymous with the original meaning, have been given to the visually impaired.

Given this, the study in hand emphasizes the superiority of proverbs, with their eloquent concise messages, over other types of folklore, reflecting the views of those societies.

Additionally, it elaborates how these proverbs stigmatize the special needs in general, and the visually impaired in particular as concomitantly likely vulnerable to undergo total disability and other deficiencies: auditory, mental, and sometimes motor.

More, it tries to monitor similarities and distinctions between common sayings relevant to visual impairment, mentioned in the dictionary of folk proverbs by Ahmed Taymour, and those frequently said by the folk in the Assiut society.

The study is also closely interested in surveying and pursuing the commonest protective measures and conventional treatments, mostly derived from ancient times, for the eyes.

Noticeably, those therapies, comprising fully natural elements; e.

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, water, plants, animals and inanimate objects, have earned the confidence of the Assiut society for their powerful and pacey effectiveness.

Concerning methodology, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach to describe forms of the targeted disability and their implications in proverbs; further, she occasionally engaged the historical approach to track social views towards the visually impaired through ancient times till now, and how they vary from age to another.

Eventually, the study recommends and highlights the significance of monitoring and interpreting distinct social views towards the visually impaired and their status in societies as depicted in all folk arts: tales, songs, mawal, folktale biographies.

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