Sur le sens des proverbes

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ID4947831
AuthorsGeorges Kleiber (0000-0002-4808-1108)
Year2000
Volume34
Issue139
Pages39-58
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLangages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0458-726X • E-ISSN: 1958-9549
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/lgge.2000.2379
OpenAlexW1967343234
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Georges Kleiber (Universite de Strasbourg) : On the Semantics of Proverbs Is there any hope of building an adequate semantics for proverbs ? The aim of this paper is to give a positive answer to this question. It is indeed possible to define what a proverb is, semantically speaking. Our characterization lies on two basic claims. The first is that a proverb has the status of a sentential denomination with generic import. The second shows that his semantic structure always conveys an implication which relies two situations involving humans. We can thus predict the constraints which must be satisfied by a generic sentence to become a proverb and, at the same time, explain the metaphorical character of certain proverbs and also the synecdochic mechanism in other proverbs

Character (mathematics · Linguistics · Semantics (computer science · Sentence · Computer Science · French Language Learning Methods · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy

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