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Mechanisms of Intentional Adaptation in the Creation of Anti-Proverbs
Nalans, 2021 This article deals with the mechanism of intentional adaptation, which is a modern way of creating Turkish anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs are created through with the influence of social media, popular lines/cues from TV series or popular life situations ...
Öznur Usta Tuzcu
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THE NATURE OF WOMEN AS REVEALED THROUGH ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTI-PROVERBS
Proverbium, 2011 For centuries, proverbs have provided a framework for endless transformation. In the last few decades they have been perverted and parodied so extensively that their variations have been sometimes heard more often than their original forms.
Anna T. Litovkina
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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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Covid-19 anti-proverbs in russian
LAPLAGE EM REVISTA, 2021 In the article, the authors analyze Russian anti-proverbs about COVID-19 that became popular on the internet during the pandemic. The anti-proverbs under study describe the most important parts of people’s lives that were changed during the pandemic: the new disease, life in quarantine, working in quarantine, and fighting with the disease.
Nadezhda N. Menshakova +4 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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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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