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Punning in Hungarian anti-proverbs
European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 Proverbs have never been considered sacrosanct; on the contrary, they have frequently been used as satirical, ironic or humorous comments on a given situation. Wolfgang Mieder has coined the term “Antisprichwort” (anti-proverb) for such deliberate proverb innovations.
Vargha, Katalin, T. Litovkina, Anna
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 In the present book, the authors deal not only with traditional, well-known proverbs, but mostly with their modified versions, anti-proverbs. Anti-proverbs permeate all aspects of our lives and appear in a broad range of generic contexts.
Daniel Many
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Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2020 The essence of marriage is being widely discussed in the last few decades in many social circles and at many different levels. From the linguistic point of view it is usually characterised on the basis of man’s and woman’s roles in their relationship ...
Katarzyna Kuligowska
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Täägin, järelikult olen olemas. Paröömiline pilguheit Tartu grafitile [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2013 The article observes the paremic (proverbial-phraseological) element in public space in Tartu, the second largest city in Estonia. The author concentrates on dynamic spaces which are freely accessible to all, without any limitations (incl.
Piret Voolaid
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Contemporarily used proverbs in SMS messages sent to a Finnish daily paper [PDF]
, 2022 Within folkloristic paremiology, proverbs have been regarded mainly as a part of the speech of older people. However, in the new Finnish urban tradition proverbs are not self-evidently passing from generation to generation and they are not ...
Liisa Granbom-Herranen
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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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MAN AND WOMAN IN THE ENGLISH ANTI-PROVERBS [PDF]
Philology. Theory & Practice, 2019 The purpose of the article is to analyse the representation of gender relations in the English anti-proverbs against the background of their proverbial representation. As a result of the research, the presentation of gender relations as unequal ones, the displacement of the vector of gender inequality towards the man and the intensification of the ...
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, 2005 Widely considered the world\u27s greatest living proverb scholar and known as the author of, among numerous other books, the Encyclopedia of World Proverbs and the coeditor of A Dictionary of American Proverbs, Wolfgang Mieder has brought particular ...
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The wisdom in Proverbs : an integrated reading of the book [PDF]
, 1992 This study illuminates the overall structure of the book of Proverbs by identifying an overlooked formal feature of Ancient Near Eastern Instructional literature.
Wiebe, Matt
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