The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters contribute, from a Cognitive Linguistics interdisciplinary perspective, to the existing body of literature on the proverb. The book begins with a first part containing three chapters concerned with theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture. The three chapters in the second part ponder proverbs within a cognitive-cross-cultural perspective. The third part of the volume includes three chapters that deal with the proverbs of individual languages and cultures. The three chapters in the fourth part study proverbs and/or related phenomena from a cognitive and cultural perspective: snowclones, idioms, and proverbial phrases. This book will be of interest to academics interested in proverbs within a cognitive linguistic framework and to scholars in the areas of language studies, applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, and Cognitive Linguistics in general, and to those researchers who wish to refine their knowledge about the cognitive activities featuring proverb use and their interaction with sociocultural contextual variables.

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Dedication
Table of contents
Editor and contributors
Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
Introduction: Proverbs from a cognitive linguistic perspective • Sadia Belkhir
Part I. Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
1. Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory • Zoltán Kövecses
2. Metonymic layers in proverbs: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view • Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó & Daler Zayniev
3. Contradiction in proverbs: The role of stereotypical metaphors • El Mustapha Lemghari
Part II. A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
4. Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti‐proverbs • Anna T. Litovkina
5. Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English: A socio-cognitive analysis • Julia Landmann
6. Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language • Gladys Nyarko Ansah
Part III. Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
7. Emotion in Greek proverbs: The case of (romantic) love • Maria Theodoropoulou
8. living is movement: A cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs • Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo
9. The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program: A cognitive linguistic approach • Mohsen Bakhtiar
Part IV. Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
10. The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone: A cognitive‐linguistic exploration of the frayed ends of proverbiality • Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
11. A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair • Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
12. “We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”: Proverbial wisdom in environmental debates • Anaïs Augé
Index

2024-07-05