Lexical and semantic aspects of proverbs

Lexical and semantic aspects of proverbs / František Čermák.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Čermák, František (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Proverbs > History and criticism.
Proverbs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Linguistic Aspects of Proverbs in System and Text
  • A Aspects of Proverbs: Lexical, Semantic and Pragmatic
  • 1. Lexical Foundations of Proverbs. Based on Data from English, German, French and Czech
  • 2. Lexicon and Proverbs: Basics and Foundations (Lexical Origins of Proverbs)
  • 3. Frequent Proverbs and Their Meaning: A Proposal of a Linguistic Description (The Core and Paremiological Minima Described)
  • 4. Proverbs: Linguistic and Lexicographic Approaches versus Ethnographic, Logical, Onomasiological and Other
  • B Proverb Use and Pragmatics
  • 5. What One Can Do with Proverbs in Text
  • 6. Text Introducers of Proverbs and Other Idioms
  • 7. Usage of Proverbs in Today's Czech language:
  • 8. Pragmatics of Proverbs: Basic Types of Evaluation
  • C Lexical and Proverb Classes in Lexicon
  • 9. Propositional Idioms
  • 10. Basic English Proverbs:
  • 11. Paremiological Minimum of English
  • 12. Paremiological Minimum of Czech: The Corpus Evidence
  • D Semantic and Functional Types and Classes of Proverbs
  • 13. Wisdom in Proverbs? (Do Proverbs Suggest Wisdom?)
  • 14. Proverbs on Friends and Friendship
  • 15. Reason and Thought: Pillars of Intelligent Behaviour Found in Proverbs
  • 16. Laugh Proverbs: Do These Really Capture Laughing?
  • 17. Numbers in Proverbs
  • 18. Dog and Cat Proverbs: Comparison of English, Czech, Finnish and Other Languages
  • Ten Commandments for Paremiologist or A Paremiological Decalogue.

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