Proverbs within cognitive linguistics state of the art Sadia Belkhir

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belkhir, Sadia., Editor.

Series:

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series

Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series vol. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proverbs--History and criticism.

Proverbs.

Proverbs--Psychological aspects.

Cognitive grammar.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2024

Summary:

The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. The chapters contribute, from a Cognitive Linguistics interdisciplinary perspective, to the existing body of literature on the proverb.

Contents:

Introduction: Proverbs from a cognitive linguistic perspective / Sadia Belkhir

Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture. Proverbs in extended conceptual metaphor theory / Zoltán Kövecses

Metonymic layers in proverbs: a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view / Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó & Daler Zayniev

Contradiction in proverbs: the role of stereotypical metaphors / El Mustapha Lemghari

A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti-proverbs / Anna T. Litovkina

Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English: a socio-cognitive analysis / Julia Landmann

Cognitive linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language / Gladys Nyarko Ansah

Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures. Emotion in Greek proverbs: the case of (romantic) love / Maria Theodoropoulou

Living is movement: a cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs / Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo

The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran's nuclear program: a cognitive linguistic approach / Mohsen Bakhtiar

Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone: a cognitive-linguistic exploration of the frayed ends of proverbiality / Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair / Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

"We are in the same storm, not in the same boat": proverbial wisdom in environmental debates / Anaïs Augé.

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ISBN:

9789027246882