The popular Sicilian proverbs in use today

This article contains the results of a fieldwork: The collection of popular proverbs and other paremias still used today and remembered by some informants of the Sicilian city of Messina from the paremiographical technique of the questionnaire. The material provided through surveys allows to analyze the results concerning the frequency of use of paremias by the informants, determine which is the paremiological competence of the respondents and which paremias they use most frequently (the active paremiological competence). In addition, it contributes to the conservation of the intangible heritage of an Italian region highly stratified from a cultural and linguistic point of view and also to the geoparemiological research in Italy, in particular, to those that are being carried out in other Sicilian varieties, like the Salvatore Trovato studies. In addition, it provides important material with which to establish the Sicilian paremiological minimum, thanks to the study of Sicilian paremiology from a geographical and linguistic perspective, which makes it possible to document the Sicilian popular proverbs from a synchronic perspective.