Introduction to Paremiology

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TypeSOURCE_BOOK
Publisherde Gruyter GmbH, Walter
ISBN-139783110410167
Open LibraryOL24207667W
Total publications6
Coverage period2015 - 2015
LanguageEN
Cited by11
Impact factor0.333
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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 Proverbial Phrases and The Matti Kuusi International Type System of Proverbs.Furthermore, she offers a critical point of view to a number of popular and systematic proverb collections, cultural comparisons and multilingual databanks.Ultimately, Lauhakangas provides a summary of the different needs in constructing categorizations of proverb corpora and also reviews the possible bias in applying conventional classification methods to proverbs.In the chapter "Semiotic and Semantic Aspects of the Proverb", Peter Grzybek addresses the issue of the meaning(s) of proverbs.He shortly presents different approaches towards the semiotic study of proverbs, as for instance classifying the traditional sayings according to their speech act character, to their status as a complex super-signs or categorizing them based on the assumption that proverbs are signs and models of typical situations.The author argues that it seems reasonable to take the three semiotic dimensions -the pragmatic, the syntactic and the semantic dimension -as a starting point for an analysis of the semiotics of the proverb.He also concludes that studying proverbs from the perspective of cultural semiotics can give deep insides into various cultural mechanisms.Marcas Mac Coinnigh points out that proverbs are found in all world languages and although they may vary in terms of their subject matter and function, it is generally accepted that the majority of sayings adhere to certain grammatical formations regardless of language, and certain syntactic structures are the favoured architecture for the creation of new proverbs.In his paper entitled "Structural Aspects of Proverbs" Mac Coinnigh describes and analyzes the most common proverbial formulae (e.g.X is Y; No X, no Y etc.) and syntactic markers (e.g.syntactic parallelism, emphatic word order, parataxis etc.) using examples from a range of European and non-European languages.His main aim is to provide a linguistic overview of the notion of proverbial style and structure in world languages.Vida Jesenšek's essay "Pragmatic and Stylistic Aspects of Proverbs" discusses the topic from two different perspectives.The first one is the perspective of the so-called traditional and the second one of the contemporary stylistics.Traditional stylistics regards proverbs as stylistic devices, to which it assigns individual characteristic stylistic attributes outside of textual use (e.g.their belonging to a particular stylistic register), whereas modern stylistic theories understand style as a functional-pragmatic factor and focus on observing proverbs in complex textual-situational contexts.By using examples from German language, namely proverbs in context, Jesenšek illustrates the argumentative potential of proverbs, their contribution to performing various speech acts and the role in organizing and structuring the text.Based on the assumption that proverbs are linguistically and culturally coined frames, Anna Lewandowska and Gerd Antos refer to the traditional sayings as verbal stereotypes of knowledge which allow their users to comment on, standardize and evaluate new situations with the help of known social clichés.In the chapter "Cognitive Aspects of Proverbs", the authors pose the following questions: What makes proverbs stereotyped?Which influence does the linguistic form of proverbs have on our ability to memorize and duplicate them?Which role do proverbs play in social language transfer?Lewandowska and Antos discuss the above questions from a cognitive point of view and concentrate on Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a frame to create a cognitivist understanding of proverbs.The scope of the chapter "Empirical Research and Paremiological Minimum", written by Peter Ďurčo, falls on the concept of the so-called paremiological or References