How Proverbs Mean
Semantic Studies in English Proverbs
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2011
XI, 213 pages
978-3-11-088197-4 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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10 Abbildungen
10 ill.
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6,55 MB
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978-3-11-088197-4 (9783110881974)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Aim and focus
- 1.2 Why study proverbs?
- 1.3 The corpus
- 1.4 Organization
- Chapter 2 Proverbs in texts and interactions
- 2.0 Introduction
- 2.1 How proverbs mean in texts
- 2.2 How proverbs mean in interactions
- 2.3 Summary
- Chapter 3 Defining the proverb
- 3.0 Introduction
- 3.1 Traditional proverb definitions
- 3.2 Structural proverb definitions
- 3.3 Supercultural versus ethnographic genre
- 3.4 Definition via feature matrix
- 3.5 A linguistically founded proverb definition
- Chapter 4 Literal proverb meaning
- 4.0 Introduction
- 4.1 Why literal readings for proverbs?
- 4.2 Ungrammatical proverbs
- 4.3 Summary
- Chapter 5 Figurative proverb meaning
- 5.0 Introduction
- 5.1 Research on proverbial figures
- 5.2 Synecdochic proverbs
- 5.3 Metaphoric proverbs
- 5.4 Metonymic proverbs
- 5.5 Hyperbolic proverbs
- 5.6 Paradoxical proverbs
- 5.7 Conclusions
- Chapter 6 The proverb inventory
- 6.0 Introduction
- 6.1 Inventory entries
- 6.2 Relations between entries
- Chapter 7 Conclusions and directions for research
- Appendix A: The annotated F-Corpus
- Appendix B: Proverbs in four Shakespearian plays
- Bibliography
- General Index
