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Proverbs Are Never Neutral

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Editors:
  1. Marina Yu. Kotova

    1. Faculty of Philology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  2. Outi Lauhakangas

    1. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  • Examines proverbs as relatively autonomous texts that make up the "alphabet" of national cultures

  • Explores the current state-of-the-art in international paremiological research

  • Works with the two types of categorization of proverbs proposed by Matti Kuusi and Georgy Permyakov

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This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and typologies from Slavonic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugric and Somali proverbs (with their English parallels) to enrich contrastive paremiology. The book pushes the thematic boundaries of the paremiological minima of languages by drawing on fields including sociolinguistics, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural linguistics, comparative cultural studies, sociolinguistics, social identity, anthropology, cognitive semiotics, and the history of words and concepts.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas
    Pages 1-10

  3. From the Paremiological Core to Actual Use of Proverbs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Terms of a Paremiological Minimum and a Paremiological Core in the Current Paremiology

      • Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas
      Pages 13-29

    3. Matti Kuusi’s Typology in the Light of Contemporary Use of Proverbs

      • Outi Lauhakangas
      Pages 31-44

    4. Paremiological Equivalence: A Comparative Study of Selected Germanic, Romance, and Slavonic Languages

      • Harald Ulland, Izabela Dixon
      Pages 45-79

  5. Ethnonyms in Proverbs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Proverbs with Ethnonyms in Czech and English Languages

      • Olesya S. Sergienko
      Pages 155-180

    3. Belorussian Proverbs with Ethnonyms and Proper Names

      • Marina Yu. Kotova, Natalia E. Boeva
      Pages 181-214

    4. Conclusion

      • Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas
      Pages 215-223

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 225-245
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Marina Yu. Kotova

  • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Outi Lauhakangas

About the editors

Outi Lauhakangas is an independent researcher, D.Soc.Sc in Helsinki University, Finland. She is one of the editorial consultants of the international journal Proverbium and a co-organizer of international colloquiums on proverbs. She has been the chief editor of a cultural magazine in Finland and published several nonfiction books about genres of folklore.

Marina Yu. Kotova teaches in the Department of Slavonic Philology of Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. She is a co-organizer of international philological conferences. She is an author of “Russian-Slavonic Dictionary of Proverbs with English parallels” (2000) and several monographs on contrastive paremiology, cultural studies, stylistics and translation studies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Proverbs Are Never Neutral

  • Editors: Marina Yu. Kotova, Outi Lauhakangas

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32646-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Rightsholder (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32645-5Published: 28 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32648-6Due: 12 December 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32646-2Published: 27 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Modern Languages, Religious Studies, general, Applied Linguistics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History

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