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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... Look is Worth a Thousand Words . " The dry explanatory text , without a picture , is an early plea for the desirability of including pictures in effective advertisements : " One Look is Worth a Thousand Words " So said a famous Japanese ...
... looks for worms behind the early plow . Keep a thing seven years and it will sort of do . The time to pick berries is when they're ripe ... look for three feet on a cat . El que no oye consejos , no llegará a viejo Examples and Texts 107.
... look at the use and function of the proverbial materials in actual speech acts . The noted anthropologist Edward Westermarck ( 1862–1939 ) began to look at proverbs from this contextual point of view in his Wit and Wisdom in Morocco . A ...
Contents
Definition and Classification | 1 |
Origin and Dissemination of Proverbs | 9 |
The International Type System of Proverbs | 16 |
Copyright | |
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