Anti-proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices - Rilegato

Litovkina, Anna Tothne; Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Hrisztalina; Barta, Pter; Vargha, Katalin; Mieder, Wolfgang

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ISBN 10: 3030890619 ISBN 13: 9783030890612

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Riassunto

<p>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.</p>

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<p><b>Anna T. Litovkina</b> is Associate Professor at J. Selye University, Slovakia. She is a linguist, a folklorist, and a humour researcher.</p><p><b>Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt </b>is Chief Quality Officer at the Swiss agency “French, Italian and German in Switzerland”. Her research interests lie in the field of applied linguistics.</p><p><b>Péter Barta</b> is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He is a linguist and a paremiologist.</p><p><b>Katalin Vargha</b> is a research fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary. Her research interests include short forms of folklore and humor.</p><p><b>Wolfgang Mieder</b> is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.</p><p></p>

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“This book is a fascinating study on human creativity as it is expressed in transforming well-known, conventional, and clichéd proverbs by turning them upside down. A valuable resource for anyone interested in verbal humor and the human potential for linguistic play.”<p>-<b>Zoltán Kövecses</b>, Professor Emeritus, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, author of Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020)</p><p>"The authors provide their readers with a kaleidoscope of proverb alterations, punning, and different devices of verbal humour, leading them skillfully into a better understanding not only of the nature and quality of anti-proverbs, but how a given language community’s worldview and attitude towards certain issues, norms and values change over time.”</p><p>-<b>Melita Aleksa Varga</b>, Associate Professor, University of Osijek, Croatia</p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><b>Anna T. Litovkina</b> is Associate Professor at J. Selye University, Slovakia. She is a linguist, a folklorist, and a humour researcher.</p><p><b>Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt </b>is Chief Quality Officer at the Swiss agency “French, Italian and German in Switzerland”. Her research interests lie in the field of applied linguistics.</p><b>Péter Barta</b> is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He is a linguist and a paremiologist.<p></p><p><b>Katalin Vargha</b> is a research fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary. Her research interests include short forms of folklore and humor.</p><p><b>Wolfgang Mieder</b> is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.</p><p></p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030890619
• ISBN 13: 9783030890612
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264
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