{"product_id":"anti-proverbs-in-five-languages-structural-features-and-verbal-humor-devices-9783030890612","title":"Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna T. Litovkina\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a fascinating study on human creativity as it is expressed in transforming well-known, conventional, and clichéd proverbs by turning them upside down. A valuable resource for anyone interested in verbal humor and the human potential for linguistic play.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cb\u003eZoltán Kövecses\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emeritus, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, author of Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The authors provide their readers with a kaleidoscope of proverb alterations, punning, and different devices of verbal humour, leading them skillfully into a better understanding not only of the nature and quality of anti-proverbs, but how a given language community's worldview and attitude towards certain issues, norms and values change over time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cb\u003eMelita Aleksa Varga\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor, University of Osijek, Croatia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna T. Litovkina\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at J. Selye University, Slovakia. She is a linguist, a folklorist, and a humour researcher.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt \u003c\/b\u003eis Chief Quality Officer at the Swiss agency \"French, Italian and German in Switzerland\". Her research interests lie in the field of applied linguistics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePéter Barta\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He is a linguist and a paremiologist.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatalin Vargha\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary. Her research interests include short forms of folklore and humor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Mieder\u003c\/b\u003e is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45273660850327,"sku":"9783030890612","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030890612.webp?v=1769257580","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/anti-proverbs-in-five-languages-structural-features-and-verbal-humor-devices-9783030890612","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}