Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Linguistic Aspects of Proverbs in System and Text -- A Aspects of Proverbs: Lexical, Semantic and Pragmatic -- 1. Lexical Foundations of Proverbs. Based on Data from English, German, French and Czech -- 2. Lexicon and Proverbs: Basics and Foundations (Lexical Origins of Proverbs) -- 3. Frequent Proverbs and Their Meaning: A Proposal of a Linguistic Description (The Core and Paremiological Minima Described) -- 4. Proverbs: Linguistic and Lexicographic Approaches versus Ethnographic, Logical, Onomasiological and Other -- B Proverb Use and Pragmatics -- 5. What One Can Do with Proverbs in Text -- 6. Text Introducers of Proverbs and Other Idioms -- 7. Usage of Proverbs in Today's Czech language: -- 8. Pragmatics of Proverbs: Basic Types of Evaluation -- C Lexical and Proverb Classes in Lexicon -- 9. Propositional Idioms -- 10. Basic English Proverbs: -- 11. Paremiological Minimum of English -- 12. Paremiological Minimum of Czech: The Corpus Evidence -- D Semantic and Functional Types and Classes of Proverbs -- 13. Wisdom in Proverbs? (Do Proverbs Suggest Wisdom?) -- 14. Proverbs on Friends and Friendship -- 15. Reason and Thought: Pillars of Intelligent Behaviour Found in Proverbs -- 16. Laugh Proverbs: Do These Really Capture Laughing? -- 17. Numbers in Proverbs -- 18. Dog and Cat Proverbs: Comparison of English, Czech, Finnish and Other Languages -- Ten Commandments for Paremiologist or A Paremiological Decalogue.

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