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Love’s a game, wanna play? The Proverbiality of Taylor Swift’s Lyrics [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Taylor Swift (born 1989) is an internationally acknowledged musical superstar whose songwriter/singer status with twelve albums to her credit is indeed phenomenal.
Wolfgang Mieder
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BEATRICE GRIMSHAW’S PROVERB SPLICER AND HER ARTFUL USE OF PROVERBS

Proverbium, 2020
The neglected Irish-born writer Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953) created a character in a novel who spliced English language proverbs. Putting such spliced proverbs into his mouth, Grimshaw both developed the character and inserted some bright spots of ...
Peter Unseth
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PROVERBS AND GENDER STEREOTYPES

Proverbium
The paper presents a cognitive-discursive study of the gendered proverb Boys will be boys with the focus on its actional and metalinguistic dimensions. The main aim is to explore the discursive dichotomy of the dictum, i.e.
Anna Konstantinova
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Methods of the Diachronic Analysis of Author’s Proverbs of the Russian Language: the Possibility of Application

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2019
The purpose of the article is to present the author's method of the diachronic analysis of author's proverbs of the Russian language and the possibilities of its practical application on the example of the analysis of the author's proverb Don't get in ...
Artur V. Zagrebelnyy
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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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¿ANTI-PROVERBIOS O PARA-PROVERBIOS?

Proverbium, 2016
Wolfgang Mieder has created the word “antiproverbs” to name “parodied, twisted, or fractured proverbs that reveal humorous or satirical speech play with traditional proverbial wisdom”.
Fernando García Romero
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“ALL ROADS LEAD TO ‘PERVERBS’’

Proverbium, 2019
The manipulative change of traditional proverbs into innovative anti-proverbs is nothing new. In fact, the playful rearrangement of proverb halves into insightful or nonsensical creations has been practiced by such aphoristic writers and poets as ...
Wolfgang Mieder
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Implications of Speech Situations, Modernity and Anti-Proverbs in Nigeria

European Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Proverbs have been observed to be one of the most esteemed dimensions to be use of language in many indigenous cultures of Nigeria. Proverbs are coded and cut across the linguistic field of idioms and metaphors in some cases. The use of proverb in many cultures is highly restrictive to some class of elders, titled men and men considered to be qualified
Ògúnṣíji, Yemi, Olugbamigbe, Yemi, Ojo, Ilufoye Fawole   +2 more
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ANTIPAREMIA IN RUSSIAN, FRENCH AND MALAGASY LANGUAGES

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017
The proposed article presents a linguistic description of the phenomenon of antiparemia, which existence is usually ignored by researchers. At the present time, due to the development of the theory of the linguistic picture of the world, this linguistic ...
- Antsa Miangola Malala Rahadraniriana
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Parental Curse as Invisible Violence: Тhe Discourse of Anti-Maternity in the Traditional Culture of the XIX Century

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2007
Curse is an appellative genre, a clichéd verbal proverb that is uttered in belief, that with the assistance of supernatural forces, God or demon, through the magical properties of words, evil will come upon an individual.
Lidija Radulović
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