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Proverbs Are Never Neutral

Proverbs Are Never Neutral

Lauhakangas, Outi
Kotova, Marina Yu

Hardcover

Literary CriticismLinguisticsReligion General

ISBN10: 3031326458
ISBN13: 9783031326455
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 28 2023
Pages: 245
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and typologies from Slavonic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugric and Somali proverbs (with their English parallels) to enrich contrastive paremiology. The book pushes the thematic boundaries of the paremiological minima of languages by drawing on fields including sociolinguistics, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural linguistics, comparative cultural studies, sociolinguistics, social identity, anthropology, cognitive semiotics, and the history of words and concepts.

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