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“THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX”

open access: yesProverbium, 2012
This article is a much longer version of a keynote address that I delivered at the “Colloque International de Parémiologie” on July 2, 2011, at the University of Paris-Diderot, at Paris, France.
Wolfgang Mieder
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PERVERBS AND DETORSIO

open access: yesProverbium
Since antiquity, paremias and phraseologisms have always been modified for comic purpose. Latin rhetoricians and scholars used to call this type of manipulation of proverbs detorsio.
Marco Luchi
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KROATISCHE UND DEUTSCHE ANTISPRICHWÖRTER IN DER SPRACHE DER JUGENDLICHEN

open access: yesProverbium, 2018
The present paper discusses the results of a survey conducted among adolescents aged 11-20 in Croatia, Germany, and Austria. The survey is the extension of research conducted in Croatia in 2014 with 897 respondents aged 14-87, which showed that the ...
Melita Aleksa Varga, Ana Keglević
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„ES GEHT DOCH NICHTS ÜBER EINEN GESUNDEN BREI VON LÜGEN UND PHRASEN“

open access: yesProverbium, 2020
The manipulation and misuse of the German language during the time of National Socialism has been studied in considerable detail. The role that folklore in general and proverbs and proverbial expressions in particular have played has also been ...
Wolfgang Mieder
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Women through Anti-proverbs by Anna T. Litovkina

open access: yesGender and Language, 2019
Women through Anti-proverbs by Anna T. Litovkina (2019) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 211pp.
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Time in the Romanian imaginary (based on repeated discourse units)

open access: yesACROSS
The article aims to describe the Romanian imaginary of time based on repeated discourse units (proverbs, sayings, phraseological expressions), understood as “forms of linguistic memory” in the Coşerian sense.
Lilia TRINCA
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“ALL ROADS LEAD TO ‘PERVERBS’’

open access: yesProverbium, 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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“MY TONGUE – IS OF THE PEOPLE”

open access: yesProverbium, 2013
Friedrich Nietzsche repeatedly relies on elements of preformulated folk speech to add a certain metaphorical expressiveness to his thoughts and arguments, no matter whether they appear in aphorisms, fragments, poems, letters, essays or entire books.
Wolfgang Mieder
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