{"product_id":"anti-proverbs-in-five-languages-structural-features-and-verbal-humor-devices-paperback","title":"Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages: Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna T. Litovkina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePéter Barta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePéter Barta\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. He is a linguist and a paremiologist.\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. 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