The textological functions of proverbs in the autobiographical writings of Hungarian peasants from Romania

The phraseological units, together with their specific system of considerations and means, are analysed by several linguistic and extra-linguistic sciences. The fact that the phraseological level of language proves to be analysable from the point of view of many branches of science, also has the consequence that within each of these researches there is the opportunity for interdisciplinary research, and sometimes the use of all these points of view is inevitable.This paper is part of my research examining the phraseme-use of first of all non-literary autobiographies of the twentieth century Hungarian literature from Romania, using means of linguistics and folklore. The paper tries to map the typology and variants of phraseological units in one of the written versions of Transylvanian Hungarian living speech. The examined texts are parts of folk written records, they bear the features of living language and, in spite of their topic and stylistic differences, they form a well-definable special text group.In this paper I am examining the textual functions of proverbs and linguistic configurations of proverbial nature in order to emphasize my earlier observations connected to proverbs with the concrete analysis of a text group.After a short revision of the referring literature concerning the examined material, I am trying to answer the following questions: 1. What kind of textual functions do proverbs have? 2. How does the context influence the meaning of the proverbs and their way of use? 3. What kind of non-standard variants of proverbs are to be found, what kind of theoretical observations can be formulated in connection with them