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This article made conceptualist semantics as theoretical foundation, in order to apprehend relativeness between the form and the meaning of proverb, during its manifestation. If semantic structure of proverb is analyzed with conceptualist point of view, there are uppermost semantic/concept lists, and if the proverbs are classified with these lists, this article suggests that the proverbs could be classified into 〈event〉 category, 〈state〉 category and 〈object〉 category in general. The chapter 1 suggests that among those category of proverbs, the 〈state〉 category of proverbs’ uppermost semantic/concept list has more diversity in structure than the other category of proverbs. In the 1st chapter, the 〈state〉 category of proverbs were classified into 〈state〉 type, 〈state{event}〉 type and 〈state{object}〉 type according to the uppermost semantic/concept structure of the 〈state〉 category of proverbs. In the chapter 2 which is the main discussion of this article, the subtype typical proverbs of the 〈state〉 category proverbs has been presented and then analyzed describing part of the proverb in the uppermost semantic/concept list. Also, each type of proverbs has been analyzed with conceptualist semantics approach, analyzing the connections between each characteristic with the arguments, and studies to find how the meaning and function of proverbs are manifested. In short, it has been found that the proverbs can be classified not with the idiomatic meanings but with straightforward expression throughout this research. Also, it has been found that how the idiomatic meaning connects with the function of proverbs through the straight forward expressions’s semantic structure.

conceptualist semantics, uppermost semantic/concept list, 〈state〉 category proverb, 〈state〉 type proverb, 〈state{case}〉 type proverb, 〈state{object}〉 type proverb