9 Proverbs from a Corpus Linguistic Point of View

Steyer, Kathrin

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“…Rohrich & Mieder 1977, Hrisztova-Gotthardt & Aleksa Varga 2015 can be validated in a completely new quantitative dimension (cf. Steyer 2012Steyer , 2015a.…”

Section: Corpus Lin Guistics M Eets Parem Iologymentioning

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Living by the Golden Rule: Mentor – Scholar – World Citizen

2019

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“…Rohrich & Mieder 1977, Hrisztova-Gotthardt & Aleksa Varga 2015 can be validated in a completely new quantitative dimension (cf. Steyer 2012Steyer , 2015a.…”

Section: Corpus Lin Guistics M Eets Parem Iologymentioning

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Living by the Golden Rule: Mentor – Scholar – World Citizen

2019

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“…This is known as proverb variation. As pointed out by Steyer ( 2014 , p. 214), one of the key questions in proverb studies and proverb lexicography is about the fixedness and variance of proverbs. The lexical and grammatical variation in proverbs has been explored in previous studies (Norrick, 1981 , 1985 ; Mieder, 2004 ).…”

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“…According to Fernando (2000, p. 43), most proverbs “can be manipulated or transformed in various ways according to the communicative needs of the language-user,” which means some parts of a proverb can be substituted, modified, inverted, or even deleted without changing its original implications. Steyer ( 2014 , p. 214) argues that proverb variation occurs mainly on two levels: the syntactic and morphological level, and the lexical level. In addition, there is a special variant of proverbs—the anti-proverb, which means a distortion, parody, and misuse of the original proverb to create a comic or satirical effect (Doyle et al, 2012 , p. 11).…”

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On English proverb variation from the perspective of linguistic creativity

Zhou

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2023

Front. Psychol.

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Proverbs are usually regarded as structurally fixed expressions. However, in daily communication, language users often change them to suit their communicative purposes in many ways, resulting in proverb variations. Using the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA corpus), this study attempts to present varieties of the English proverb “There are two sides to every coin” and explain the variations from the perspective of linguistic creativity. This study also explores the variations of this proverb in EFL learners' use via the data from Chinese EFL learners' corpus TECCL. The study shows that, first proverb use can roughly be divided into two types: canonical and non-canonical uses, each having three ways of alteration, i.e., addition of modifiers, substitution of content words, and reduction. Second, Chinese EFL learners tend to use the proverb in a mechanical way with little variation, which shows their inflexible use of proverbs. Finally, proverb variation by nature is the creative manipulation of language use to fit the context, which is a form of linguistic creativity that reflects the cognitive creativity of human beings.

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Metatextual indicators and phraseological units in a multimodal corpus

Rojo

2019

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The present work aims to address the combined use of phraseological units and metatextual indicators in spoken language, that is, the mechanisms used to introduce phraseological units to listeners. Exhaustive knowledge of how metatextual indicators are employed in discourse is, no doubt, highly valuable in identifying phraseological units in cases where immediacy is a main factor, as is common in different types of interpreting. The main characteristics of metatextual indicators are considered, along with their different categories to date, taking as a starting point such works as those of Čermák (2005) and Goddard (2009). An analysis is also provided of the 100 most recent uses of the metatextual indicator as the saying goes from a search in the multimodal NewsScape corpus. Studying these 100 uses leads to the general conclusion that this indicator tends to precede phraseological units – overwhelmingly proverbs – and that the phraseological units tend to be used without any modifying mechanisms. However, there are numerous cases, while still a minority, of quotations and, within them, allusions to elements that go beyond their classic conception – such as the notable inclusion of cases where the speaker manipulates the canonical meaning of phraseological units.

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9 Proverbs from a Corpus Linguistic Point of View

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Living by the Golden Rule: Mentor – Scholar – World Citizen

Living by the Golden Rule: Mentor – Scholar – World Citizen

On English proverb variation from the perspective of linguistic creativity

Metatextual indicators and phraseological units in a multimodal corpus

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