ISBN-13: 9780805802313 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str.
ISBN-13: 9780805802313 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str.
The proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of the proverb - personal, formal, religious, literary, practical, cultural and cognitive. Because the author's goal is to provide a scientific understanding of proverb comprehension and production, he draws largely on scholarship stemming from the formal, cultural and cognitive views. This text attempts to provide a larger, more interdisciplinary perspective on the proverb, and to give a theoretically more integrated approach to proverb cognition. The conceptual base theory of proverb comprehension is extended via the cognitive ideas hypothesis so that the theory now addresses issues regarding the creation, production and pragmatics of proverbs. This hypothesis also has strong implications for a taxonomy of proverbs, proverb comprehension, universal vs. culture-specific aspects of proverbs, and some structural aspects of proverbs.