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  1. Behold the proverbs of a people
    proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book... mehr

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs.Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom"--

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781628461404; 9781628461411
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 7355 ; LC 72000
    Schlagworte: Proverbs / History and criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; Proverbs; Sprichwort
    Umfang: VIII, 489 S.
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Behold the proverbs of a people
    proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book... mehr

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs.Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom"--

     

    Export in Literaturverwaltung   RIS-Format
      BibTeX-Format
    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781628461404; 9781628461411
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 7355 ; LC 72000
    Schlagworte: Proverbs / History and criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; Proverbs; Sprichwort
    Umfang: VIII, 489 S.
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references and index