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A Woman’s Nature as Represented in Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs
2018This chapter explores woman’s nature as represented in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, and discusses various stereotypical traits of women. The chapter begins with the exaggerated importance placed on women’s appearance and vanity, and their obsession with their age, sex appeal, and weight.
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Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs
Asian Folklore Studies, 2000David R. Mayer +2 more
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It is known that the proverbs can be used unchanged for centuries, because of their cliche patterns. In addition, due to their special role in language use, proverbs can be changed for criticism or entertainment purposes. A variety of phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic, etc. changes on the existing proverb can be observed. As a matter of fact,
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Anti-Proverbs – Sayings That Result from The Transformation of Proverbs
European International Journal of Philological SciencesThis article examines the phenomenon of anti-proverbs as a result of the lingua-creative transformation of traditional paremiological resources. It analyzes the mechanisms by which folk sayings are reinterpreted in modern discourse, identifying the main methods of their deformation: lexical substitution, context expansion, and structural truncation ...
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Usage of Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs in Economic Discourse
European Proceedings of Educational Sciences, 2022Dzhamilya M. Khuchbarova +2 more
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