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Publication details [#3930]

Green, Georgia M. 1975. Nonsense and reference: Or, the conversational use of proverbs. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 : 226–239.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cliché | co-text | nonsense | proverb | reference

Annotation

A study of the syntactic restrictions on the use of proverbs and clichés, showing that their behavior cannot be explained without reference to pragmatic principles and the conversation in which they are used.