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A good joke can lift the lowest spirits, enliven the dullest party, or be a welcome icebreaker at the start of a speech. But why is it so hard to find that key
Women Through Anti-Proverbs
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This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate prover
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages
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This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means
Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs
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This book explores various aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (or proverb transformati
The Proverbial
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Authors: Kevin J. McKenna
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the worl