Wolfgang Mieder
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 315224 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wolfgang Mieder |
| NOMBRES | Wolfgang |
| APELLIDO | Mieder |
| FIRMA | MIEDER W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vermont |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Three Proverbial Triads
The number three has played a major role in cultural, folkloric, and linguistic tradition. There are numerous proverbs based on a triadic structure in various languages dating back to antiquity and continuing to this day. But there are also so-called proverbial triads consisting of but a string of three words like “Veni, vidi, vici”, “Wein, Weib und Gesang”, “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”, and “Blood, sweat, and tears”. Many folk triads like “Rea…
Computational Paremiology
Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little quantitative work on changes in the frequency with which they are used over time. With wider availability of large corpora reflecting many diverse genres of documents, it is now possible to take a broad and dynamic view of the importance of the proverb. Here, we measure temporal ch…
Obituary Dan Ben-Amos
The Humanistic Value of Proverbs in Sociopolitical Discourse
Proverbs as strategic signs for recurrent situations have long played a significant communicative role in political rhetoric. Folk proverbs as well as Bible proverbs appear as expressions of wisdom and common sense, adding authority and didacticism to the multifaceted aspects of sociopolitical discourse. Some proverbs like the golden rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12) or “It takes a village to raise a child” c…
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
“Politics is not a Spectator Sport”
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a thoughtful proverbial stylist in her books It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1996), Living History (2003), and Hard Choices (2014). Just as other politicians, she too has attempted to formulate concise statements that have the possibility of becoming familiar quotations and perhaps even proverbs. Being a world traveler she has picked up foreign proverbs which she incorporates into her communicatio…
Introduction to Paremiology
closes his paper summarizing several new theories on the creation of proverbs.Outi Lauhakangas' "Categorization of Proverbs" shows different ways of classifying the unilingual and multilingual proverb material.The author explains the history, background, aims and motives of these efforts, presents and compares two serious attempts to systemize the international proverb lore -G.L. Permyakov's Logico-semiotic Classification of Proverbs and Proverbi…
Sõbrad on isegi kaugel viibides lähedal
Iidne vanasõna „Sõbrad on isegi kaugel viibides lähedal”, mida tundis juba suur kõnemees Cicero,(1) on suurepärane rahvatarkus kirjeldamaks pikka ja sügavat sõprust, mis seob Arvo Krikmanni Tartus, Eestis, ja mind ennast kaugel Burlingtonis, Vermontis, Ameerika Ühendriikide kirdenurgas. Võiks küsida, kuidas meie, kaks folkloristi ja parömioloogi, omavahel tuttavaks saime, aga on ju hästi teada, et sarnaste [...]
A Fervent Plea for a Lithuanian–English Proverb Collection
You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs (Toads) Before You Meet Your Handsome Prince”
Wolfgang Mieder, “You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs (Toads) Before You Meet Your Handsome Prince”: From Fairy-Tale Motif to Modern Proverb, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 28, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: In Honor of Donald Haase (2014), pp. 104-126
Rezensionsexemplare
It Takes a Village to Change the World
Proverbs in political rhetoric help grass-roots efforts to bring about human and social improvements regionally, nationally, and globally. Drawing on the proverbial prowess of such national figures as Abigail and John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and others, this article shows that they employ proverbs based on spatia…
«Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words»
Anti-proverbs and mass communication
While a number of anti-proverb collections as well as linguistic studies of such proverb parodies have appeared in several languages during the past twenty-five years, they have for the most part ignored the folkloristic importance of anti-proverbs as the source of new folk proverbs. There is no doubt that most anti-proverbs are one-day-wonders in that they will never enter general folk speech by gaining a certain currency and traditionality. How…
The proof of the proverb is in the probing.' Alan Dundes as Pioneering Paremiologist
a conclusion, and a list of references cited, i.e
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarianand Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, whi…
The proverb “Good fences make good neighbours” in Ireland
Now I Sit Like a Rabbit in the Pepper
Proverbial language plays a major stylistic and expressive role in the letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (175691). Invaluable for understanding his genius, these letters contain revelations about his complex personal, artistic, and social existence. The stylistic and biographical discussion of this traditional folk rhetoric is grouped under eight subheadings: Incantations and curses as proverbial formulas, animal phrases as social commentary, s…
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Si les proverbes font partie de la sagesse populaire, il n'en constituent pas moins des enonces complexes, s'appuyant souvent sur des analogies ou des metaphores qui revelent leur nature ambigue, leur ouverture a l'interpretation. Ainsi, qu'en est-il de la sagesse populaire exprimee par le proverbe Les bonnes clotures font les bons voisins ? L'objectif de l'humanite ne devrait-il pas etre d'abattre partout les clotures et les murs de toutes sorte…
International Proverb Scholarship
Children and Proverbs Speak the Truth
Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You
As a deeply religious person, Frederick Douglass (1818-95) relied heavily on biblical proverbs to strengthen the social and moral statements in his debates, lectures, and writings. But while the biblical proverbs provided religious authority to Douglass's deliberations, he was also very much aware of the social significance of folk proverbs in his fight against slavery and for civil rights. The proverbs function as authoritative and collective st…
The 2000 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. "In lingua veritas" Proverbial Rhetoric in Victor Klemperer's Diaries of the Nazi Years (1933-1945)
Wolfgang Mieder, The 2000 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture. "In lingua veritas" Proverbial Rhetoric in Victor Klemperer's Diaries of the Nazi Years (1933-1945), Western Folklore, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 1-31
The Holocaust
Twisted Wisdom
Introduction to Paremiology
closes his paper summarizing several new theories on the creation of proverbs.Outi Lauhakangas' "Categorization of Proverbs" shows different ways of classifying the unilingual and multilingual proverb material.The author explains the history, background, aims and motives of these efforts, presents and compares two serious attempts to systemize the international proverb lore -G.L. Permyakov's Logico-semiotic Classification of Proverbs and Proverbi…
Proverbs are never out of season
"From "Look before you leap" and "You can't sell the cow and have the milk too" to "There's no fool like an old fool" and "Practice what you preach," the wisdom of proverbs has delighted people throughout the ages. Now, Proverbs Are Never Out of Season provides an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variations in the modern world." "Wolfgang Mieder takes a fascinating tour of the many roles proverbs have played and…
The Wisdom of Many
The Wisdom of Many explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than twenty essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time, drawing on African, Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, Irish, and Yiddish examples
Twisted Wisdom
Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Tradition and Innovation
A Man of Fashion Never Has Recourse to Proverbs”
Many scholars have claimed that proverbs largely dropped from polite speech during the eighteenth century in England. Often quoted in this context is Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son that proverbs are merely the "rhetoric of the vulgar man" and "a man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms." This article challenges the former assumption and shows that Chesterfield himself regularly used proverbs in his letters, and us…
No Tickee, No Washee
Le proverbe « no tickee, no washee » (pas de ticket, pas de linge propre) a pour origine le parle des nombreux blanchisseur chinois ne maitrisant pas l'americain. Ce proverbe stereotype cette population. Son emploi n'implique cependant pas automatiquement une connotation raciale et il est souvent mis en parralelle avec la formule « No X, No Y ». L'expression peut etre utilisee metaphoriquement. Elle est parfois cependant consideree comme une atte…
"Proverbium." Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship
Communicating with Quotes
The use of quotations or proverbs to convey a message is an important communication technique in the Igbo society of southeastern Nigeria. Penfield contends that there are few, if any, satisfactory ethnographic investigations of where, why, how, and by whom or among whom proverbs are used, and the range of interactional situations in which they are used. Such a study, Penfield believes, would reveal the significant patterns and values of a partic…
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Si les proverbes font partie de la sagesse populaire, il n'en constituent pas moins des enonces complexes, s'appuyant souvent sur des analogies ou des metaphores qui revelent leur nature ambigue, leur ouverture a l'interpretation. Ainsi, qu'en est-il de la sagesse populaire exprimee par le proverbe Les bonnes clotures font les bons voisins ? L'objectif de l'humanite ne devrait-il pas etre d'abattre partout les clotures et les murs de toutes sorte…
The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian
Il existe de nombreux stereotypes a propos des Indiens d'Amerique, mais le proverbe le seul bon indien est un indien mort est une invective particulerement odieuse. Elle a ete utilise aux Etats Unis des 1860, et son origine a ete attribuee au General Philip Sheridan. L'histoire de ce proverbe, sa dissemination, son sens et ses variations sont retracees jusqu'a aujourd'hui, de maniere a montrer qu'il est utilise avec une frequence etonnante aussi …
Anti-proverbs and mass communication
While a number of anti-proverb collections as well as linguistic studies of such proverb parodies have appeared in several languages during the past twenty-five years, they have for the most part ignored the folkloristic importance of anti-proverbs as the source of new folk proverbs. There is no doubt that most anti-proverbs are one-day-wonders in that they will never enter general folk speech by gaining a certain currency and traditionality. How…
A Dictionary of Wellerisms
The wellerism - so called in English because it is a form of expression typical or reminiscent of Sam Weller or his father, two celebrated characters in Dickens's Pickwick Papers - is a major subtype of the proverb. It consists of three parts: a speech or statement (often a proverb), identification of the speaker, and identification of the situation, which gives the expression an ironic or humorous twist, often in the form of a pun. A Dictionary …
Grim Variations from Fairy Tales to Modern Anti-Fairy Tales
(1987). Grim Variations from Fairy Tales to Modern Anti-Fairy Tales. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 90-102
Proverbs in Nazi Germany
HISTORIANS OF GERMAN FOLKLORE have begun to examine carefully the role that this science played during the period of National Socialism. Adolf Bach includes a detailed chapter on Die deutsche Volkskunde 1933/45 in the third edition of his monumental study Deutsche Volkskunde (1960), and Hermann Bausinger (1965) analyzes these dark years of German folklore scholarship in his significant article on Volksideologie und Volksforschung: Zur nationalsoz…
International Proverb Scholarship
Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You
As a deeply religious person, Frederick Douglass (1818-95) relied heavily on biblical proverbs to strengthen the social and moral statements in his debates, lectures, and writings. But while the biblical proverbs provided religious authority to Douglass's deliberations, he was also very much aware of the social significance of folk proverbs in his fight against slavery and for civil rights. The proverbs function as authoritative and collective st…
Proverbs in World Literature
Literary critics and folklorists have long been interested in the use and function of proverbial language in literature. Proverbs in World Literature enables scholars and students to establish what has been published on proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, proverbial exaggerations, and wellerisms in the works of many authors throughout the world. This international bibliography contains 2,654 entries, of which the first 284 c…
Make Hell While the Sun Shines”
(1995). “Make Hell While the Sun Shines”: Proverbial Rhetoric in Winston Churchill's The Second World War. Folklore: Vol. 106, No. 1-2, pp. 57-69
International Proverb Scholarship
Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature
(Don't) Throw The Baby out with the Bath Water
Bien que le proverbe « (Ne pas) Jeter le bebe avec l'eau du bain » soit apparu au XV e siecle en Allemagne, et dans le monde anglo-saxon au XIX e siecle, il est aujourd'hui considere comme etant d'origine anglo-americaine. Histoire de cette evolution du XV e siecle a nos jours avec des exemples des emplois et des significations de cette expression dans les dictionnaires et dans la presse
Disenchantments. An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry
Poems reexamine the stories of the Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Rumplestiltskin
The Art of Mixing Metaphors. A Folkloristic Interpretation of the "Netherlandish Proverbs" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
American Proverb Literature
f o r more information about proverbs used as autograph album inscriptions.But h i s study was p~:blislzed be-lore inost 0.2 the eiscellent ~iorlc on aZrican proverbs rrhich demonstra
Lexikon der sprichwortlichen Redensarten
International Bibliography of Explanatory Essays on Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions Containing Names
Sprichwort
Tradition and Innovation
Motive und Motivationen in Redensarten und Meinungen. Aberglaube, Volks-Charakterologie, Umgangsformeln, Berufsspott in Verbreitung und Lebensformen
The Use of Proverbs in Psychological Testing
Das Sprichwort in unserer Zeit
One Last Proverb Publication by Archer Taylor
In the book entitled Selected Writings on Provert s by Archer Taylor (Helsinki 1975) I included what I thought was a complete bibliography of Archer Taylor's proverb studies (pp. 195-203). Now I find that an important last proverb essay by this great American paremiologist has appeared posthumously in Ireland with the following title: Collection and Study of Tales and Proverbs, Bealoideas, 39-41 (1971-1973, published 1975), 320-328. This article …
International Bibliography of Explanatory Essays on Individual Proverbs and Proverbial Expressions
Proverbial Comparisons and Related Expressions in Spanish. Recorded in Los Angeles, California
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
Sprichwort
Proverbs & Sayings of Ireland
Der Witz. Figuren, Formen, Funktionen
Deutsche Sagen
Proverbes du Rwanda
Deutsche Sprichworter und Redensarten
Proverbs in Nazi Germany
HISTORIANS OF GERMAN FOLKLORE have begun to examine carefully the role that this science played during the period of National Socialism. Adolf Bach includes a detailed chapter on Die deutsche Volkskunde 1933/45 in the third edition of his monumental study Deutsche Volkskunde (1960), and Hermann Bausinger (1965) analyzes these dark years of German folklore scholarship in his significant article on Volksideologie und Volksforschung: Zur nationalsoz…
International Proverb Scholarship
The Art of Mixing Metaphors. A Folkloristic Interpretation of the "Netherlandish Proverbs" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Wisdom of Many
The Wisdom of Many explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than twenty essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics, and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time, drawing on African, Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, Irish, and Yiddish examples
The Wisdom of Many
International Proverb Scholarship
International Proverb Scholarship
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