Proverbs: A HandbookProverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. Written by the foremost authority on proverbs, this reference gives high school students, undergraduates, and general readers a concise yet comprehensive overview of proverbs in world culture. The volume begins with definitions and classifications of proverbs, followed by discussions of several notable examples. The book then examines approaches to the study of proverbs and the place of proverbs in literature, politics, popular songs, and everyday life. It closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources and a glossary. Included are numerous illustrations. |
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... linguists have decided to refer to all formulaic phrases as phraseological units or phraseologisms . They have created a ... linguistic studies , paremiologists usually look at proverbs from a more inclusive point of view as they draw on ...
... linguistic and cultural signs are added to them with a special focus on actual proverb performance in speech acts ( Goodwin and Wenzel 1979 ) . This is not to say that the purely linguistic approach to proverbs lacks in value , as David ...
... linguistic and semiotic viewpoints ( Fleischer 1997 ) . PERFORMANCE ( SPEECH ACTS ) IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS The vexing problem of proverb meaning continues to occupy semantic studies . Linguists and folklorists have repeatedly attempted to ...
Contents
Definition and Classification | 1 |
Origin and Dissemination of Proverbs | 9 |
The International Type System of Proverbs | 16 |
Copyright | |
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