Table of contents
Editor and contributors
ix
Acknowledgements
xiii
List of tables and figures
xv
Introduction
Proverbs from a cognitive linguistic perspective
1
Part I.Theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture
25
Chapter 1.
Proverbs in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory
26
Chapter 2.
Metonymic layers in proverbs
A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural view
40
Chapter 3.
Contradiction in proverbs
The role of stereotypical metaphors
65
Part II.A cognitive-cross-cultural linguistic approach on proverbs
87
Chapter 4.
Metaphors of love before and after marriage in proverbs and anti‑proverbs
88
Chapter 5.
Proverbs of Latin and French origin in the history of English
A socio-cognitive analysis
112
Chapter 6.
Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language
132
Part III.Cognitive categories in the proverbs of individual languages and cultures
173
Chapter 7.
Emotion in Greek proverbs
The case of (romantic) love
174
Chapter 8.
Living is movement
A cognitive analysis of some Akan proverbs
202
Chapter 9.
The role of Persian proverbs in framing Iran’s nuclear program
A cognitive linguistic approach
230
Part IV.Proverbs and related phenomena in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework
259
Chapter 10.
The only good snowclone is a dead snowclone
A cognitive‑linguistic exploration of the frayed ends of proverbiality
260
Chapter 11.
A cultural linguistic study of embodied Hungarian proverbs representing facial hair
298
Chapter 12.
“We are in the same storm, not in the same boat”
Proverbial wisdom in environmental debates
328
Index
349