Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs
Published on 15. September 2020
243 pages
978-80-246-4369-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on proverbs from dozens of languages, there is an effort to map proverbs within a language in a systematic and reliable way. The book will prove useful to paremiologists, lexicographers, and comparative linguists.
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Frantisek Cermak
Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs
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02/2021
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Linguistic Aspects of Proverbs in System and Text
- A Aspects of Proverbs: Lexical, Semantic and Pragmatic
- 1. Lexical Foundations of Proverbs. Based on Data from English, German, French and Czech
- 2. Lexicon and Proverbs: Basics and Foundations (Lexical Origins of Proverbs)
- 3. Frequent Proverbs and Their Meaning: A Proposal of a Linguistic Description (The Core and Paremiological Minima Described)
- 4. Proverbs: Linguistic and Lexicographic Approaches versus Ethnographic, Logical, Onomasiological and Other
- B Proverb Use and Pragmatics
- 5. What One Can Do with Proverbs in Text
- 6. Text Introducers of Proverbs and Other Idioms
- 7. Usage of Proverbs in Today's Czech language:
- 8. Pragmatics of Proverbs: Basic Types of Evaluation
- C Lexical and Proverb Classes in Lexicon
- 9. Propositional Idioms
- 10. Basic English Proverbs:
- 11. Paremiological Minimum of English
- 12. Paremiological Minimum of Czech: The Corpus Evidence
- D Semantic and Functional Types and Classes of Proverbs
- 13. Wisdom in Proverbs? (Do Proverbs Suggest Wisdom?)
- 14. Proverbs on Friends and Friendship
- 15. Reason and Thought: Pillars of Intelligent Behaviour Found in Proverbs
- 16. Laugh Proverbs: Do These Really Capture Laughing?
- 17. Numbers in Proverbs
- 18. Dog and Cat Proverbs: Comparison of English, Czech, Finnish and Other Languages
- Ten Commandments for Paremiologist or A Paremiological Decalogue
