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“The best things in life are fee.” Some aspects of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs
The European Journal of Humour ResearchFor centuries, proverbs have provided a framework for endless transformation. In recent decades, proverb modification has taken such proportions that sometimes we can even meet more proverb transformations than traditional proverbs.
Anna T. Litovkina
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Old Proverbs in new Skins – An fMRI Study on Defamiliarization
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization contribute to the affective and aesthetic processing of reading in an event-related fMRI experiment with 26 participants.
Isabel C Bohrn +10 more
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017 In the present study I am going to explore negative aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (i.e., deliberate proverb innovations (also known as alterations, parodies ...
Anna T. Litovkina
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Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2019 The aim of the paper is to analyze ways of structuring images of man and woman in modern anti-proverbs of the Russian people. The term “anti-proverb” offered by W.
O. B. Abakumova, N. V. Kiryukhina
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„Die Bäume wachsen nicht in den Himmel“ – Überlieferung, Verwendung und Bedeutung eines Sprichwortes [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2022 The German proverb “Es ist dafür gesorgt, daß die Bäume nicht in den Himmel wachsen“ with its shortened variant „Die Bäume wachsen nicht in den Himmel“ has been transmitted since the early sixteenth century.
Wolfgang Mieder
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„Die Kürze würzen“: Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Alexander Eilers [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 Alexander Eilers (born 1976) has not only made a name for himself as an aphoristic writer of several vo- lumes but has also assisted younger aphoristic authors whose aphorisms he has edited.
Wolfgang Mieder
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Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2014 Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation.
Katalin Vargha, Anna T. Litovkina
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ARMED REVOLT IN MOSCOW IN DECEMBER, 1905 IN THE MIRROR OF ORIGINAL RUSSIAN PAREMIOLOGY ADAPTATION
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The purpose of the article is to display some results of linguistic analysis of proverb adaptation motivated by the armed revolt in Moscow in December, 1905.
Artur V. Zagrebelnyy
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An Analysis of Humor in English Anti-proverbs: A Script-based Semantic Approach [PDF]
Mağallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb Bi-QināIn paremiology, anti-proverbs are formed by transforming and twisting traditional proverbs to create humorous effects. The main purpose of creating anti-proverbs is to produce humor; therefore, the major of this study is to analyze humor in anti-proverbs.
Ahamd Farouk Zidan +1 more
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“Money Is not the Root of All Evil – no Money Is”. Do (Anti-)Proverbs Always Tell the Truth? (Using the Example of Addition) [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławDespite the fact that numerous proverbs about proverbs stress the truth of proverbs, and assert that proverbs cannot be contradicted or judged, proverbs have never been considered as absolute truths.
Anna T. Litovkina
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