Proverbs : their lexical and semantic features

Proverbs : their lexical and semantic features / František Čermák.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Čermák, František
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vermont : "Proverbium" in cooperation with the Institute of the Czech National Corpus, the University of Vermont, 2014.
Series:Supplement series of Proverbium ; v. 36.
Subjects:
Proverbs > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: General aspects of proverb meaning and function. Proverbs : linguistic and lexicographic approaches versus etnographic, logical, onomasiological and other ; What one can do with proverbs in text ; Frequent proverbs and their meaning : a proposal of a linguistic description
  • Part II: Lexicon and pragmatics of proverbs. Lexical foundations of proverbs based on data from English, German, French and Czech ; Usage of proverbs in today's Czech language : what the Czech national corpus seems to suggest ; Lexical origins of proverbs (lexicon and proverbs) ; Pragmatics of proverbs : basic types of evaluation ; Text introducers of proverbs and other idioms
  • Part III: Paremiological minima and other studies. Dog and cat proverbs : a comparison of English, Czech, Finnish and other languages ; Do proverbs suggest wisdom? ; Paremiological minimum of Czech : the corpus evidence ; Paremiological minimum of English.

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