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"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Proverbial Wisdom; 1. "The Wit of One, and the Wisdom of Many": Proverbs as Cultural Signs of Folklore; Definition and Meaning; Genesis and Evolution; Empiricism and Paremiological Minima; Semiotics and Performance; Culture, Folklore, and History; Stereotypes and Worldview; Proverbs and the Social Sciences; Use in Folk Narratives and Literature; Religion and Wisdom Literature; Pedagogy and Language Teaching; Mass Media and Popular Culture; Bibliography (Emphasis on English-language Publications). |
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2. "Many Roads Lead to Globalization": The Translation and Distribution of Anglo-American Proverbs in EuropeEuropean Paremiography; European Phraseology and Paremiology; Origin and Dissemination of Common European Proverbs; Anglo-American Proverbs on the European Scene; Older European Loan Translations of Anglo-American Proverbs; Modern Loan Translations of Anglo-American Proverbs; New German Loan Translations of American Proverbs; A Plea for Modern European Paremiography; Bibliography; 3. "Think Outside the Box": Origin, Nature, and Meaning of Modern Anglo-American Proverbs. |
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Collections and Studies Containing Modern ProverbsEstablishing a Corpus of Modern Proverbs; Lemmas, Variants, Structures, and Length of Modern Proverbs; Counter-Proverbs, Anti-Proverbs, and Reincarnated Proverbs; Modern Proverbs Expressed as Laws of Life; Attribution of Modern Proverbs to Certain Individuals; Advertising Slogans as Sources of Modern Proverbs; Songs and Films as Sources of Modern Proverbs; Animals, Body Parts, Business, Sports, Technology, America; Life, Man, Woman, God, Friend, Time, Age, Love, Beauty; Sexuality, Obscenity, and Scatology in Modern Proverbs. |
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When Dealing with Modern Proverbs: "Think Outside the Box"Bibliography; Proverbs in Politics; 4. "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness": Martin Luther King's Proverbial Struggle for Equality; Lack of Research on Martin Luther King's Formulaic Rhetoric; Martin Luther King's Sermonic Use of Proverbs; Bible Proverbs in the Fight for Desegregation and Civil Rights; Folk Proverbs in the Struggle against Prejudice and Injus; "No Man Is an Island" and Human Interconnectedness; New Mousetraps and Bright Stars as Proverbial Signs of Change; Proverbs and Quotations as Rhetorical "Set Pieces." |
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"Making a Way Out of No Way"Proverbial Underpinnings of the "I Have a Dream" Speeches; Bibliography; 5. "The Golden Rule as Political Imperative": President Barack Obama's Proverbial Worldview; An Inaugural Address without Famous Quotations; Immediate Journalistic Reactions to the Inaugural Address; Lack of President Obama's Earlier Quotable Creations; No Direct Reference to the Proverbs of American Democracy; "We Must Pick Ourselves up, Dust Ourselves off "; Barack Obama's Attempts at New Quotable Formulations; From Inaugural Speech to the World. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Proverbs -- History and criticism.
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Proverbs. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Mieder, Wolfgang. Behold the proverbs of a people. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461404 (DLC) 2014010121 |
| ISBN |
9781628461411 (electronic book) |
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1628461411 (electronic book) |
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9781626740761 (electronic book) |
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1626740763 (electronic book) |
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9781628461404 (hardback) |
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1628461403 |
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