How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs

✍ Scribed by Neal R. Norrick

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 228
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 27
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Aim and focus
1.2 Why study proverbs?
1.3 The corpus
1.4 Organization
Chapter 2 Proverbs in texts and interactions
2.0 Introduction
2.1 How proverbs mean in texts
2.2 How proverbs mean in interactions
2.3 Summary
Chapter 3 Defining the proverb
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Traditional proverb definitions
3.2 Structural proverb definitions
3.3 Supercultural versus ethnographic genre
3.4 Definition via feature matrix
3.5 A linguistically founded proverb definition
Chapter 4 Literal proverb meaning
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Why literal readings for proverbs?
4.2 Ungrammatical proverbs
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5 Figurative proverb meaning
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Research on proverbial figures
5.2 Synecdochic proverbs
5.3 Metaphoric proverbs
5.4 Metonymic proverbs
5.5 Hyperbolic proverbs
5.6 Paradoxical proverbs
5.7 Conclusions
Chapter 6 The proverb inventory
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Inventory entries
6.2 Relations between entries
Chapter 7 Conclusions and directions for research
Appendix A: The annotated F-Corpus
Appendix B: Proverbs in four Shakespearian plays
Bibliography
General Index