Paremiological analysis in La colmena by Camilo Jose Cela

Paremias or short sententious statements appear in both spoken and written discourse, especially in literary texts. Therefore, this text typology is one of the main sources for the study of these units. This research presents a methodological proposal for the study of paremias in literary contexts, focusing on the complex nature of these linguistic units. The application of various criteria (linguistic, chronological, and literary) leads the author to choose as the object of study a novel written in Spanish by Camilo Jos & eacute; Cela in the mid20th century, La colmena (The Hive). This research will make it possible to find out the paremias selected by Cela and the paremic categories in which they are framed, as well as the characters who used them, the formulas for their insertion, and the function they fulfil. The results obtained will allow the language used by Camilo Jos & eacute; Cela in La colmena to be analysed in depth. In the conclusions, the usefulness of the methodology that is applied will firstly be verified to carry out an analysis of paremias in written discourse, more spe - cifically in literary discourse, and secondly to verify whether the use of paremias serves to mark the towards a realist as Cela intends in this novel.