Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages
Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices
Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Anna T. Litovkina, Katalin Vargha, et al.
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This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.
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humor studies, pun, lexicology, phraseology, semantics, humour, paremiology, proverb transformation, folklore