- Tytuł:
- Why Money Cannot Buy Happiness. The Painful Truth about Traditional Proverbs and Their Modifications
- Autorzy:
- Mandziuk, Justyna
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/601235.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2017
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
- Tematy:
- paremiology, modified proverbs, perverbs, anti-proverbs, quasi-proverbs, pseudo-proverbs, twisted proverbs
- Opis:
- Can one imagine language without proverbs? Do we really need these somewhat clichéd adages like An apple a day keeps a doctor away, Once bitten, twice shy, or Crime doesn’t pay? Are they still influential, or perhaps modern society should give them a new lease of life? This paper aims to reveal the “painful truth” behind traditional proverbs and especially their modified versions. Leading paremiologists (Wolfgang Mieder, Nihada Delibegović Džanic, Anna Litovkina) introduce a number of terms in reference to the latter, and so this study discusses the etymology and the semantic import of such labels as anti-proverbs, twisted proverbs, quasi-proverbs, and pseudo-proverbs. However, its basic aim is to propose a classification of modified proverbs based on a number of examples, such as Man proposes, mother-in-law opposes; A good beginning is half the bottle; Crime pays – be a lawyer; A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one knows the corners, and many others. Finally, based on Ronald Langacker’s conception of the profile-base distinction, deriving from the figure-ground alignment, this paper makes an attempt to prove the necessary link between traditional proverbs and their innovative modifications.
- Źródło:
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New Horizons in English Studies; 2017, 2
2543-8980 - Pojawia się w:
- New Horizons in English Studies
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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